16, St Nicholas Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Shop. 2 related planning applications.

16, St Nicholas Street

WRENN ID
gilded-zinc-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1993
Type
Shop
Source
Historic England listing

Description

880-1/7/288

TRURO ST NICHOLAS STREET (North side), No. 16

(Formerly listed as No. 15)

30-JUL-93

II

Shop with accommodation and store rooms over. Designed by James Hicks of Redruth for Messrs Criddle and Smith shortly before 1884. Brick with granite dressings;roof hidden behind parapet. Deep rectangular plan. Italianate style with early Gothic detail. 4 storeys; 3 bays. Double shop front with flanking pilasters to moulded entablature; first and second floors dominated by wide full-height central arch flanked by narrow arches carried on giant fluted pilasters with stiff-leaf foliate capitals; within these arches are 2 tiers of windows with central canted oriel to the first floor; central bay has windows with double transoms and coloured glass over the top transoms, otherwise horned sashes. Bold cornice beneath fourth floor or attic storey which has 5 windows under keyed round arches with pilasters between carrying the parapet entablature with turned balustrade over. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW8255444830

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