5, Cross Street

HELSTON

SW6427 CROSS STREET 631-1/4/106 (North side) 22/05/72 No.5 (Formerly Listed as: CROSS STREET (North side) Nos.3 AND 5)

GV II

Built as Helston Union Bank, later lawyer's office. 1788. Used by Humphry Millet Grylls, solicitor who administered the Duke of Leeds' (Godolphin) estates; continues in same practice today. Elvan ashlar with granite dressings including plinth, sills, quoins, lintels and jamb stones; grouted scantle slate roof; brick end stacks and lateral stack to rear left. Cast-iron ogee gutter. Double-depth plan including rear wings. 3 storeys; irregular 1:1:1-bay front. Original or early C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars including 2nd-floor bowed sash with decorative iron balcony to projecting central bay. Doorway is at far left with pair of 2-panel doors and Tuscan porch with entablature with moulded cornice, broken out over paired columns. Left-hand return of stair wing has unusually tall original stair window with glazing bars and fanlight head; various original rear sashes. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with ramped handrail and stick balusters, 6-panel and some 2-panel doors and 2 early C19 marble chimneypieces with later iron grates.

Listing NGR: SW6579727638