Description

HELSTON

SW6427 CROSS STREET
631-1/4/106 (North side)
22/05/72 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
CROSS STREET
(North side)
Nos.3 AND 5)

GV II

Built as Helston Union Bank, later lawyer's office. 1788. Used
by Humphry Millet Grylls, solicitor who administered the Duke
of Leeds' (Godolphin) estates; continues in same practice
today. Elvan ashlar with granite dressings including plinth,
sills, quoins, lintels and jamb stones; grouted scantle slate
roof; brick end stacks and lateral stack to rear left.
Cast-iron ogee gutter. Double-depth plan including rear wings.
3 storeys; irregular 1:1:1-bay front. Original or early C19
hornless sashes with glazing bars including 2nd-floor bowed
sash with decorative iron balcony to projecting central bay.
Doorway is at far left with pair of 2-panel doors and Tuscan
porch with entablature with moulded cornice, broken out over
paired columns. Left-hand return of stair wing has unusually
tall original stair window with glazing bars and fanlight
head; various original rear sashes. INTERIOR: open-well
staircase with ramped handrail and stick balusters, 6-panel
and some 2-panel doors and 2 early C19 marble chimneypieces
with later iron grates.

Listing NGR: SW6579727638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503340

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