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CSUS Truro Report |
REPORT text detailing the results of the historic
character study for the town of Truro. Graeme Kirkham,
Historic Environment Service.. |
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5811kb |
Figure 1 - Location & Topography Map |
Map showing the location of Truro and its immediate
topography. |
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1619kb |
Figure 2 - Ordnance Survey 2nd Edition 1:2500 Map (c.1907) |
Map showing the town of Truro in c.1907. |
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896kb |
Figure 3 - Historic Development Map |
Map showing the historic development and expansion of
Truro. |
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1842kb |
Figure 4 - Historic Settlement Topography Map |
Map showing the historic topography of Truro with key
areas of historic activity. |
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1482kb |
Figures 5a, 5b, 5c - Surviving Historic
Components Maps |
Three maps showing the surviving historic buildings of
Truro. |
5a |
5b |
5c |
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Figure 6 - Urban Archaeological Potential Map |
Map showing the areas and sites of archaeological potential
in Truro. |
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1346kb |
Figure 7 - Character Areas Map |
Map showing the seven character areas identified by the
survey of Truro. |
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1570kb |
Character Area 1- The Commercial Core |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of the commercial core. The
historic and commercial heart of Truro, this area is dominated by
distinctive, strongly urban streetscapes with a variety of impressive
historic buildings, including most of Truro’s major landmark structures. |
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970 kb |
Character Area 2a - Cathedral Area - Quay
Street |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of the Cathedral area - Quay
Street. A busy secondary commercial area based on a cluster of narrow,
strongly enclosed streets and distinctive, high quality buildings,
overlooked by the towering mass of the Cathedral. |
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569kb |
Character Area 2b - Kenwyn Street - Calenick
Street |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Kenwyn Street - Calenick Street. Former medieval and post
medieval suburbs and minor industrial areas set about historic routeways.
Kenwyn Street retains much of its historic fabric and character but
Calenick Street has been substantially reshaped by late 20th
century change. |
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523kb |
Character Area 3 - Lemon Street |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of Lemon Street. Distinctive
townscape of the highest quality, with views up and down the sloping street
providing some of the defining images of Truro. Although diverse in detail
it has a fundamental unity of character based on the genteel elegance and
modest scale of the dominant architectural style. |
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689kb |
Character Area 4 - Frances Street, Ferris
Town and St George’s Road |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Frances Street, Ferris Town and St George’s
Road. A new suburb of the 1820-40s with a planned mix of genteel and modest
terrace housing in a distinctive, high-quality ‘Cornish Regency’ style.
Later elements – the mid 19th century church, chapel, school and
vicarage, monumental railway viaduct and Victorian public park – augment
the sense of a ‘designed’ urban quarter. |
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580kb |
Character Area 5 - The working waterfront |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
the working waterfront. Formerly a key
element in Truro’s prosperity, the surviving waterfront area is now limited
in extent and isolated from the historic core. It nevertheless retains
within the urban area some distinctive fabric and a symbolic sense of the
city’s historic links with maritime trade. |
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443kb |
Character Area 6 - Falmouth Road, Strangways
Terrace and Infirmary Hill |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Falmouth Road, Strangways Terrace and
Infirmary Hill. Large, high quality suburban houses, terraces and
institutional buildings in leafy surroundings, set around a historic route
into the city and forming one of its finest approaches. |
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616kb |
Character Area 7 - Tregolls Road – St
Clement’s Hill |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Tregolls Road – St Clement’s Hill. A green
suburban approach to the city, with mature trees in the ornamental grounds
of large, later 19th century houses the dominant element. Most
buildings are significantly masked by greenery. Away from the busy main
road the area has a semi-private, secluded air. |
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714kb |
Character Area 8 - Kenwyn Road |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Kenwyn Road . The site of the Domesday manor
from which Truro developed, this is now a leafy suburb of distinctive, high
quality buildings set along a medieval route descending into Truro from the
north west. |
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520kb |
Character Area 9 - Daniell Street - Carclew
Street. |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Daniell Street - Carclew Street. Modest
industrial artisan rows and terraces of the earlier 19th century
in an area opened up for development after the construction of Lemon
Street. Daniell Road represents a significant later 19th century
expansion. The terrace and row forms, narrow streets and buildings set hard
to the pavement result in a tight grain and strong sense of enclosure.
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594kb |
Character Area 10 - Truro Vean – Mitchell
Hill – Malpas Road |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Truro Vean – Mitchell Hill – Malpas Road:
the eastern suburbs. A large area of varied 19th century
suburban development in an irregular grid across the eastern valley side.
There are striking views across the city and the area forms an important
part of the green setting for the centre of Truro. |
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759kb |
Character Area 11 - Chapel Hill – Station
Road |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Chapel Hill – Station Road: the western
suburbs. A modest suburban area of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries with fine views over the city. It includes the important western
approach to Truro via Station Road and the medieval route via Chapel Hill. |
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625kb |
Character Area 12a -
Morlaix Avenue –
Trafalgar Square |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Morlaix Avenue – Trafalgar Square.
Former industrial and waterfront area, subject to
major change in the later 20th century resulting in almost total
loss of historic structures and topography. The area is now dominated by
roads, parking and large-scale retail development. |
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855kb |
Character Area 12b - Upper Pydar Street. |
Summarises the comprehensive assessments of
character and regeneration opportunities of
Upper Pydar Street. Set above the city
astride a medieval routeway, this was the site of the castle and first
planted settlement of Truro. The area has been subject to major later 20th
century change and little historic fabric remains. Now dominated by large
building complexes, roads and parking. |
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487kb |