6, FORE STREET (See details for further address information)

ST DAY FORE STREET SW 74 SW (north side, corner of 11/350 Telegraph Street) No.6, with No.1 Telegraph Street GV II Shop and 2 cottages, now shop and one dwelling, with attached shop and cottage now house (No.1 Telegraph Street). Early C19; altered. Cross-wall construction, the cross walls of stone and the front and rear walls of light post-and-rail construction infilled with rubble, with slate-hung cladding painted white, on a plinth of large granite blocks; slurried slate roof (No.1 Telegraph Street has tiles imitating slate). On oblique corner site, single-depth trapezoidal plan with shop at left end, and No.1 Telegraph Street attached and slightly canted back at the right-hand end. Two low storeys and 3+2 bays in total; the shop has a chamfered corner containing the doorway, a wide shop-window of 6 large panes, and another doorway to the right, both doorways with pilaster jambs, and all under a plain fascia and simple cornice with egg-and-dart decoration; at 1st floor, the end over the doorway has an inverted triangle of fishscale slates, and the front has a 4-pane sashed window. To the right, each cottage has one 4-pane sash on each floor, with the doorway to the 2nd cottage between the ground-floor windows; and rear-wall chimneys. No.1 Telegraph Street, of 2 bays slightly canted back, has an altered former shop front in the 1st bay, with slender pilastered jambs to a blocked doorway at its right-hand end, and a 4-pane sash and modern doorway to the left, all under a plain fascia and cornice with egg-and-dart decoration; one 4-pane sash to the right and 2 above; and a gable chimney. Interior: cottages to right of shop were formerly one-up-one-down, each with a deep square granite fireplace in the rear wall; plaster now removed to expose wall construction; modern additions to rear. Forms an attractive enclosure to the north-west side of a triangular junction which was formerly the site of St Day cross.

Listing NGR: SW7292042515