77 And 78, Lemon Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Town house, office. 3 related planning applications.

77 And 78, Lemon Street

WRENN ID
broken-paling-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1950
Type
Town house, office
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TRURO

SW8244NE LEMON STREET 880-1/7/173 (West side) 29/12/50 Nos.77 AND 78

GV II

Pair of town houses, now offices. c1809. By Robert Blee, builder. Local freestone ashlar front, roof hidden behind parapet, brick end stack on the left. Double-depth mirror-image pair with passage between. 3 storeys over blocked basement; overall symmetrical 4-window front has plinth, central round-arched passsage doorway flanked by 2 similar but smaller doorways with projecting impost blocks, 6-panel doors, plain fanlights. Other openings spanned by shallow segmental arches with projecting keyblocks; moulded cornices under parapets, bolder cornice to No.78 (right). Original hornless sashes with glazing bars except where glazing bars have been removed to ground-floor sashes and lower halves of first-floor sashes to No.77 and later horned sashes to 2nd floor of No.78. INTERIOR: many original features including moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8260044718

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