Description

LAUNCESTON

SX3284 HIGH STREET 660-1/4/69 (North West side) 27/02/50 No.6

GV II

Town house with later shop. Early/mid C18. Granite ashlar courses alternating with rubble courses; continuous ground-floor wooden lintel; steep rag slate roof with 3 gabled roof dormers with C20 six-pane 2-light casements; angled eaves cornice. Double-depth plan. 2-storeys plus attic over basement on right; 5-window range. C18 possibly original sashes with thick glazing bars; central pedimented doorway with pilasters and consoles; panelled reveals and 6-panel door; traceried overlight with central oval. Late C20 double shop front on the left. Stone rubble rear has late C18 two-storey canted bay on left with 3 x 16-pane hornless sashes to each bay, slate-hung aprons and coved eaves cornice which returns towards No.4 (qv) with stucco on studwork wall with slate-hung gable. INTERIOR not accessible at time of survey but noted as having good quality early C18 open-well staircase with turned balusters and ramped handrail with scrolled newel.

Listing NGR: SX3316284620

External Links

• Wikidata Q26569356

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