Description

TRURO

SW8244NE LEMON STREET 880-1/7/129 (East side) 29/12/50 No.20 and attached forecourt railings

GV II

Town house. c1799. By Josiah Randell, builder, for Edward Milford, lessee. Granite ashlar basement, local dressed freestone above with dry Delabole slate roof and rendered end stacks. Double-depth plan with central entrance hall between 2 front reception rooms. 2 storeys over blocked basement; symmetrical 3-window front. Central wide elliptically-arched doorway and distyle Doric porch with fluted columns and paired brackets under a flat cornice; panelled reveals, panelled door with side panels and spoked fanlight; mid-floor string, moulded parapet cornice and C20 horned sashes with glazing bars under shallow segmental arches with projecting key blocks. INTERIOR: original moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands to front rooms. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron railings flank granite-stepped entrance bridge and stand over forecourt walls which adjoin granite steps down to the basement. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8260444672

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)