Description

TRURO

SW8244NE PRINCE'S STREET
880-1/7/221 (South side)
29/12/50 The Mansion House and attached
forecourt railings

GV II*

Town house. c1760. By Thomas Edwards for Thomas Daniell, a
merchant and mine owner. Granite ashlar to basement, freestone
ashlar above; roof hidden by parapet; brick end stacks;
scantle slate roof over carriageway.
Double-depth plan with central entrance hall leading to
service stairs and large stair halls on the right; 2 reception
rooms at the front and 2 at the rear. 3 storeys over basement;
symmetrical 5-window street front plus carriage entrance on
the right. Basement as plinth; round-arched central doorway
with engaged Tuscan columns and open pediment over an
intricate fanlight; heavy moulded cornice with dentils under
2nd-floor windows, moulded parapet cornice and flat arches
over early C19 hornless 12-pane sashes. On the right is an
elliptical-arched vault spanning the carriage entrance above
which is a C18 Venetian bay window with thick glazing bars.
Rear elevation has canted bay windows.
INTERIOR: retains most of its original good quality carpentry,
joinery and plasterwork including open-well staircase with
open string with key pattern over scrolled brackets, moulded
and ramped handrail over scrolled wrought-iron balusters;
Venetian stair window with fluted Ionic columns over a turned
balustrade and a frieze with Vitruvian scroll; also decorated
wall panels with broken pediments containing shells and
moulded stairwell ceiling with lozenge panels.
Most of the rooms have cornices and chimney-pieces:
first-floor rear room has chimney-piece with shouldered
architrave and cornice mantel with naturalistic carving of a
dog in a landscape; original doors and doorcases, some with
pediments; ground floor has very good quality ceilings with
modillioned cornices.
Service stair has chinoiserie geometric balustrade; entrance
vestibule has coved ceiling and small inner vestibule has
saucer-shaped dome over 6 round-arched doorways.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: broad flight of steps in front has curved
wrought-iron balustrade with urn finials to newel stanchions,
these return as railings to surround forecourt.
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: Prince's Street and The
Quay Area: Truro: 1980-; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary
of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 285).

Listing NGR: SW8274344787

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533957

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)