1, Prince'S Street

TRURO

SW8244NE PRINCE'S STREET 880-1/7/212 (North side) 19/06/73 No.1

GV II

Formerly known as: No.1 BOSCAWEN STREET. House, now commercial premises. c1850. Roughly-coursed rubble, granite and granite dressings, steep dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gables and tall stone axial and gabled lateral stacks. Tapered corner site, 2 rooms wide with entrance porch at the Boscawen Street front giving access via a cross passage to rooms on the left (facing Duke Street) and rooms on the right (facing Prince's Street). Tudor style. 2 storeys plus attics and 3 storeys plus attics. Tall gabled elevations with plinths, string courses, arched doorways and mullioned windows. West entrance front, of 1:1:1 fenestration, has full-height porch with moulded 4-centred arched doorways to either side; wider bay with 4-light windows, left, and bay with 3-light windows, on the right. Porch has 5-light bay window over a frieze of quatrefoils which returns under the 4-light sidelights; larger windows have transoms, most have hoodmoulds. Side walls are similarly detailed. INTERIOR not inspected. No.1 Prince's Street is on the site of the Coinage Hall, 1351-1848. John Wesley preached here on 27th August 1776 and on other occasions. In 1851 it was the home of Nicholas Gill, the founder of a successful drapery business. Plaque on building for Wesley information. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Prince's Street and The Quay Area: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8272044826