8, St Thomas Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1949. A Early Modern Town house.

8, St Thomas Street

WRENN ID
gilded-render-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Country
England
Date first listed
28 January 1949
Type
Town house
Period
Early Modern
Source
Historic England listing

Description

PENRYN

SW7834SE ST THOMAS STREET 580-1/6/151 (West side) 28/01/49 No.8

GV II

Town house, probably merchant's house. C17: probably for Thomas Melhuish 1656 (lease), 1657 lease to Andrew Rider, merchant. Render replacing stucco on timber-framed jettied front between rendered rubble side walls corbelled out for each floor; steep dry slate roof gable end on to the street; rubble axial stack heightened with brick. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys including 2nd floor partly in roof space; 2-window range (1st floor). C20 twelve-pane horned sashes and C20 pair of 16-pane 2-light casements to gable. Ground floor has two C17 ovolo-moulded oak doorframes with ogee stops on the left with C20 six-panel door fronting through-passage far left, and C20 top-glazed door adjoining early C19 eighteen-pane projecting shop window plus sidelights. INTERIOR retains old floor and roof structures and possible stair or garderobe recess to right-hand wall. A notable survival for W Cornwall of a C17 merchant's house of this type, gable-ended and with right-angled plan to street. (Palmer J: The People of Penryn in the Seventeenth Century: Truro: 1986-).

Listing NGR: SW7857634340

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