Description

LISKEARD

SX2564 FORE STREET
979-1/5/107 (West side)
22/07/81 No.22

GV II

Town house with later shop. 1686 date with inscription 'I.
Trehauke' to masonry at 1st floor right, refronted mid/late
C19. Stucco on studwork slightly jettied over shop; painted
stone set back on right; roof not visible; moulded eaves,
cast-iron ogee gutters. Deep narrow plan. 3 storeys; 1-window
range plus 1-window short return. 4-pane and 2-pane hornless
sashes within moulded architraves. Late C19 double shop front
with central splayed doorway; panelled stall risers with
fielded panels; slender turned columns flanking plate-glass
lights and sidelights with caps with centres; tall C20 fascia
under moulded cornice. Rear has mid/late C19 chamfered 3-light
casement with glazing bars to ground floor, possibly a
replacement of original mullioned window. INTERIOR: C17
open-well closed-string staircase with oak twist balusters and
1st floor front chamber with bolection-moulded chimneypiece
and panelled overmantel. A notable survival of an early town
house on a narrow-fronted plot.

Listing NGR: SX2519464531

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501808

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)