Description

TRURO

SW8244NE LEMON STREET 880-1/7/168 (West side) 29/12/50 No.68

GV II

Town house, now shop. 1823. For Thomas Treloar, lessee, a merchant. Local freestone ashlar front over granite plinth, asbestos slate roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan with central entrance hall between 2 rooms at the front. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Slightly projecting central round-arched doorway with ashlar pilasters, moulded architrave and moulded cornice; 6-panel door, traceried fanlight. First-floor sill string and wooden brackets under eaves soffit. Shallow segmental arches with projecting keyblocks over original 16-pane hornless sashes except to ground floor where replaced with plate glass. INTERIOR: open-well open-string stair with mahogany handrail scrolled over newel, doorcases with moulded architraves with corner blocks and moulded hoods, panelled window shutters and moulded and carved plaster ceilings. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SW8254444651

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