Southleigh And Attached Garden Walls

TRURO

SW8244SW LEMON STREET 880-1/10/181 (West side) 19/06/73 Southleigh and attached garden walls (Formerly Listed as: LEMON STREET (West side) Southleigh)

GV II

Town house, now flats. 1833. Stucco on masonry with granite dressings to principal fronts, otherwise local rubble; hipped dry Delabole slate roofs with wide eaves on paired brackets, left-hand roof behind parapet with moulded cornice; cast-iron ogee gutters. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 1:1:1-fenestration to south front of 3-window range. Original tripartite sashes with glazing bars within granite architraves with granite mullions under moulded hoods, except for narrow windows left of doorway with later 4-pane sashes; parapeted left-hand bay projects and has central 2-storey projection with 2 windows and quoin strips. Doric doorcase with fluted columns in antis under right-hand window. East front of 1:4 fenestration has 2-storey canted bay on the left. Other elevations have segmental brick arches or timber lintels over original or horned copy sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest and permission to take photographs or notes within grounds refused. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high rubble garden walls of which the wall linked at right-angles to south front of house has original slate coping. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8238344492