Buildings at risk in Cornwall
The Cornish Buildings Group are leading a three-year Historic England/ Cornwall Heritage Trust grant funded project to identify and campaign for Cornish buildings at risk.
Heritage at Risk for Sale
Your chance to purchase a slice of Cornish history. Treluswell Brewery, near Penryn The Old Treluswell Brewery Yard includes the former malthouse which is in need of redevelopment and a mixture of ‘end of life’ industrial buildings as well as a more modern ‘salon’ premises. The buildings have been left to decline over a large…
A new design for Hotel Bristol, Newquay…but is it any better?
A re-consultation letter has been lodged with Cornwall Council with reference to changes to the original submission for the designs for a new development to replace the Hotel Bristol at Narrowcliff, Newquay. This relates to full planning permission for residential development (Use Class C3) and hotel development (Use Class C1), car and cycle parking, landscaping…
After all, it’s only history…
Why is the building at risk When we started this project one of the buildings that featured on our risk register was the former foundry complex in Station Road, St Blazey. Since the builders merchants left the site it has slowly been the subject of decay and vandalism. Some three years later since we first…
Newsletter No.27
A three-year project led by the Cornish Buildings Group and supported by Historic England and the Cornwall Heritage Trust, commenced in September 2020. The funding supports a case officer in order to help identify and monitor buildings at risk and seek solutions for neglected, redundant or derelict listed buildings and unlisted buildings Former Pomery’s Garage,…
69 Bodmin Road, St Austell: a building with a story to tell
There is an interesting building at 69 Bodmin Road, St Austell. It is not listed but the St Austell Conservation area appraisal, 2017 (section 3. 1. 31) mentions ‘…a timber-clad, former engineering works just below the viaduct, and the former saw-mill, with its existing cast iron mill wheel on the west-side of Bodmin Road’. An…
Newsletter No.26
A three-year project led by the Cornish Buildings Group and supported by Historic England and the Cornwall Heritage Trust, commenced in September 2020. The funding supports a case officer in order to help identify and monitor buildings at risk and seek solutions for neglected, redundant or derelict listed buildings and unlisted buildings Freedom of Information…
Newsletter No.25
A three-year project led by the Cornish Buildings Group and supported by Historic England and the Cornwall Heritage Trust, commenced in September 2020. The funding supports a case officer in order to help identify and monitor buildings at risk and seek solutions for neglected, redundant or derelict listed buildings and unlisted buildings Some good news…
New book on the distinctiveness of Cornish buildings published
The Distinctiveness of Cornish Buildings: Conference Papers Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Cornish Buildings Group Presented at St Austell in 2019edited by Paul Holden The 15 papers in this richly-illustrated volume were presented at a conference marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Cornish Buildings Group, held at St Austell in 2019. They cover a…
Newsletter 24
A three-year project led by the Cornish Buildings Group and supported by Historic England and the Cornwall Heritage Trust, commenced in September 2020. The funding supports a case officer in order to help identify and monitor buildings at risk and seek solutions for neglected, redundant or derelict listed buildings and unlisted buildings No updates from…
Newquay’s Hotel Bristol – a short history
by William Emmett Part of the existing Hotel Bristol was originally built as a private villa – however, the exact date of its construction is not clear. An early lease notes the date 25 December 1895. Photographic evidence suggests that the villa existed before 1903 and was operating as the Hotel Edgcumbe – it is…
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Cornish Buildings Group 'Buildings at Risk' Project 