Egyptian House is a Grade I listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. A 19th century House. 1 related planning application.
Egyptian House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-belfry-sorrel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- 19th century
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Egyptian House, located at Nos 6 and 7 on Chapel Street in Penzance, is an early 19th-century building designed in an extravagant Egyptian style. It stands three storeys tall and features three windows. The façade includes battered half-round corded pilasters, and the windows are adorned with glazing bars. Flanking the entrance are lotus bud columns, and above the windows, there are coved cornices. The building is also decorated with two obelisk caryatids and displays a coat of arms crowned by an eagle. A heavy coved crowning cornice completes the design. Nos 5 to 11, which are consecutive, form a group with this building.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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