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CSUS St Ives Report |
REPORT text detailing the results of the historic
character study for the town of St Ives. Kate Newell,
Historic Environment Service.. |
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Figure 1 - Location & Topography Map |
Map showing the location of St Ives and its immediate
topography. |
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Figure 2 - Ordnance Survey 2nd Edition 1:2500 Map (c.1907) |
Map showing the town of St Ives in c.1907. |
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882kb |
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Figure 3 - Historic Development Map |
Map showing the historic development and expansion of
St Ives. |
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659kb |
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Figure 4 - Historic Settlement Topography Map |
Map showing the historic topography of St
Ives with key
areas of historic activity. |
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688kb |
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Figures 5a, 5b- Surviving Historic
Components Maps |
Two maps showing the surviving historic buildings of
St Ives. |
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5b |
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Figure 6 - Urban Archaeological Potential Map |
Map showing the areas and sites of archaeological potential
in St Ives. |
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652kb |
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Figure 7 - Character Areas Map |
Map showing the seven character areas identified by the
survey of St Ives. |
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232kb |
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Character Area 1- Medieval commercial core –
The church, Market Place and Fore Street |
Historically this is the town’s primary urban area, with church, market place and main commercial street. Its urban pre-eminence weakened with the 19th century rise of the rest of the commercial town (Character Area 2) and the late 20th century tourism magnet of the harbour. There is a distinct difference in character between the northern and southern ends of Fore Street with the southern end sharing more of the character of the 19th century civic urban rebuilding of High Street and Tregenna Place and Hill (Character Area 2) and the northern end retaining more of the earlier built fabric and smaller scale of the 17th century town.
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471 kb |
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Character Area 2 - 19th century town centre |
The predominant character of this area
derives from its development as the civic, institutional and commercial
centre of the town during the late 19th century. Architecture here reflects
this redevelopment with many formally designed urban buildings and polite
architecture sited here. However, the area also retains some sense of the
smaller-scaled and originally residential vernacular buildings of the late
18th and early 19th century period.
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496kb |
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Character Area 3 - The Harbour |
Widely perceived as the heart of the town,
the harbour is a critically important part of St Ives. Still continuing as
a place of work, the active fishing fleet and other craft add much to the
authentic character of the area. The robust granite pier, its two
lighthouses and the popular family beach form an important part of the
town. The surrounding buildings have been changed dramatically, and often
not sensitively, reflecting the changing role of the harbour now St Ives’
busiest tourist focal point.
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515kb |
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Character Area 4 - Down’long |
This densely packed ‘fishing village’ area of the town has a unique and powerful sense of place. The specialised architecture of domestic fish cellars, the remains of the industrial fish cellars, good surviving street surfacing and granite gutters retain character and identity. The semi-natural headland of the Island and the expanse of Porthmeor Beach with the Tate St Ives overlooking it mark the area out as special.
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Character Area 5 - The terraces |
Residential use now dominates the character of this area, although historically it was a highly industrial area of mining and tin streaming. The strongly linear and architecturally uniform mid 19th - early 20th century residential terraces dominate. Set on the rising ground behind the historic core of the town, the terraces stack up the Stennack Valley sides. Importantly several earlier streets and groups of cottage rows of 18th and 19th century date survive
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469kb |
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Character Area 6 - Coastal suburb and
railway resort |
This area represents an affluent suburb of the town and an important part of its development as a ‘railway resort’. The large detached houses, villas, town-house terraces and grand hotels are amongst the most imposing architectural statements in the town designed on a grand scale and set within large spacious gardens. The quality of materials, architectural design and generous scale and spacing emphasises the sense of quality and prestige of this area. Its splendid views, overlooking the stunning Porthminster Beach and town below, also include bay-wide panoramas. This area is the subject of views out of town where the tiers of development are highly visible stacked up the coastal slope. The mature planting and trees of the well stocked large private grounds and gardens make a positive feature in wider town views.
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Appendix 2 |
Fish cellars and pressing methods. Research
and diagrams by John Ferguson 2000. |
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327kb |
