Truro Works

Industrial workshops, built around 1830 and expanded around 1850, with later 19th-century and 20th-century additions and alterations. The workshops are constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, featuring gabled and hipped slate roofs and incorporating single ridge, two gable, and one side wall stacks. The building has a plinth and a first-floor sillband, with wooden gutters. The main range has three to four storeys and approximately 8 x 15 windows. Situated on an acute-angled corner, the rounded corner has a three-window entrance bay with cross casements and, above, three nine-pane sashes with a six-pane sash inserted between the left pair. A central wooden doorcase features pilasters and a cornice, with the frieze inscribed "Truro Works." The double-boarded door has an overlight, flanked by a shuttered window to the left and a blocked window to the right. The left return, facing Matilda Street, has four cross casements to the left and four plain sashes to the right. Above, there are seven single-light casements and a sash, all smaller. The ground floor has a wooden doorcase with pilasters, a cornice, and a pediment, framing a four-panel door with overlight, a blocked window, and a pair of carriage doors. A later 19th-century workshop block is present to the right, distinguished by painted ground floor details, sillbands, two gable, and two ridge stacks. This block is four storeys high with a 13-window range, featuring two-light casements with overlights on the upper floors, with smaller windows on the third floor. The ground floor has a near-central door flanked by five windows to the left and three to the right, with a carriage opening to the left and a corniced doorway with overlight to the right. The right return, facing Mortimer Street, has sixteen windows on each upper floor, mostly two-light casements, some first-floor ones with glazing bars. Most of the ground floor windows are blocked, some have shutters. A mid-19th-century block with tall, segment-headed glazing bar casements (mostly reglazed) sits to the right, featuring a truncated square factory chimney stack with ashlar plinth and band. The return to Matilda Lane includes a mid-19th-century block raised in the late 19th century, with sillbands, a single gable, and a side wall stack. It has four storeys and a 12-window range with segment-headed two-light glazing bar casements on the lower three floors (some unglazed) and six horizontal three-light casements on the third floor. The ground floor contains a door in bay nine. A late 19th-century block is present to the right, with a coped gable, a single gable stack, three storeys, and an eight-window range with casements, the second-floor windows being smaller. The interior of the building has not been inspected.