Description

ST. MARY'S

SV9010 HUGH STREET, Hugh Town 1358-0/8/58 (South side) Nos.1-8 (Consecutive) Nos 1-8 including Mumfords

GV II

Terrace of 8 houses including shop. c 1926 by Richardson and Gill for the Duchy of Cornwall. Coursed and dressed granite; flat concrete roof behind parapet. Double-depth plan, with single and double-fronted houses all originally provided with kitchen, parlour and scullery. Neo-Georgian style. 2 storeys; 24-window range to Hugh Street and 2-window return to Mumfords facing Garrison Lane. Each house has granite lintels and cills to one ground-floor tripartite sash with margin lights and horned 6/6-pane first-floor sashes. Keyed segmental arches over 6-panelled doors with fanlights. Mumfords has tripartite shop front on canted angle: articulated by 2 Doric half-columns to central half-glazed door with flanking sidelights and terminal Doric pilasters framing two 24-pane fixed shop windows; 6/6-pane sashes on canted corner above and to return. Whole terrace set on raised plinth with pilaster divisions between each house, plat band, cornice, parapet with coping and recessed stacks. Flat roofs chosen to resist Scilly windstorms. Included as a fine example of Richardson and Gill's work for the Duchy of Cornwall estate on Scilly. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SV9022510564

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