2 Station Hill

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SW 64 SE 11/299

REDRUTH STATION HILL (north side) No.2

1.12.51

GV II

Former savings bank, later offices, now club. Opened in 1827, altered. Colour washed render probably on granite, slurried slate roofs. Double-depth plan. Front range is of two storeys and three bays, under a hipped roof with flanking chimney stacks. Symmetrical front elevation, in classical style, with a plinth, channelled corner pilasters, and the ground floor occupied by a wide recessed loggia with two pairs of Tuscan columns in antis, a triglyph frieze and moulded cornice, ornamental wrought iron railings between the columns (scrolls and intersecting curves); within the loggia, a central doorway with double doors, and two 16-pane sashed windows with internal shutters; at first floor, three tall 12-pane sashed windows with raised sills and keystones. Projecting eaves, the soffit decorated with moulded plaster panels and roundels; hipped roof of shallow pitch; side-wall chimneys towards the rear. Rear range under a hipped roof.

Interior not inspected.

HISTORY: savings banks were established to give the working classes a measure of financial independence, encouraged by the politician George Rose who set up a bill which became the Savings Banks (England) Act 1817. The first savings bank in Redruth opened in January 1818, with the bank moving into the newly-built premises on Station Road in around 1827. The upper floor was used as accommodation for a salaried officer. The building was enlarged to the rear between the 1850s and 1870s. The bank closed in 1892. The building then became the Redruth Urban District Council offices from 1894 to 1934, as recorded on a plaque on the front elevation.

Listing NGR: SW6985241911