Works Progressing Update - February 2022

Works progressing:

St Austell Market House

Use: Market House containing Town Museum and commercial units

Works funded:

• New frameless recessed clear glazing to Ground Floor openings to recreate the look of the original open arches
• Removal of internal partitions and suspended ceilings to reveal original vaulted stone ceilings
• Refurbishment of double hung sash windows to first floor
• Re-seating granite entrance steps
• New ceramic hanging signs to the Market House and Museum;
• Bespoke ceramic planters within recesses to ground floor glazed openings
• New cast iron gutters and downpipies replacing current undersized ones
• Fascia repairs
• Selected lime re-pointing
• Additional agreed work includes new temporary flooring and internal architectural lighting to the granite arches

A skills training workshop for Cornwall College Carpentry students on timber window repairs was held on Thursday 23^rd January 2020.

Workshops also took place with Cornwall College Art students who assisted production of the new ceramic hanging sign.

Use: Continued use of chemist at ground floor, ground floor flat, conversion of upper floors to additional 6 residential units

Works funded:

• New traditional shopfront with detailing based on original shopfront
• New ground floor flat window
• Repaired and overhauled upper floor sash windows
• New cast rainwater goods

32/32a Fore Street (Hays Travel)

Use: Commercial all floors

Works funded:

• Leadwork repairs to barrel roofed dormer window and parapet
• Window repairs
• External painting, picking out detailing in contrasting colours

2-6 Bodmin Road

Use: Retail at Ground Floor, residential on upper floors

Works funded:

• New traditional shopfront with bespoke stallriser tiling
• New traditional sash windows
• Breathable internal insulation
• New timber fascia and soffit
• New ogee cast alluminium gutters
• Front walls painted in breathable mineral paint

Use: Church offices and display area, community café, meeting, training rooms

Works funded:

• New traditional shopfront
• Sash window repairs
• Refixing roofing slate
• Structural repairs to roof
• Cast rainwater goods

Use: Drinking Fountain

Works funded:

• Repairs to damaged drinking fountain including reinstating marble side pieces and missing finials, stone cleaning
• Repair and repointing churchyard railings

Use: Ground floor café, upper floors other uses connected to cafe.

Works funded:

• Re-tile shopfront in bespoke 3D tiling with edible planting
• New ground floor doors to cafe
• Repair and repaint first and second floor windows
• Clean down and paint walls of main elevations

Use: Vacant building converted into three flats with internal parking spaces for 5 cars and cycle storage.

Works funded:

• Clean down external walls, repairing render and repainting in mineral paint picking out detailing in contrasting colours
• Re-roofing in reclaimed local slate
• Structural repairs to roof structure
• Chimney repairs
• Cast rainwater goods
• New corner front double doors to original detailing
• Repair of front main entrance doors
• Repair and overhaul of seven arch headed windows reinstating any missing coloured glass
• Five new sash windows to side elevation
• Three new tall arched sash windows to rear and new sash window to side elevation
• Reinstate original boarded reveal detail to twelve windows

Use: New shopfront to vacant building.

Works funded:

• Pilasters to each side of new shopfront
• New cornice, fascia and sign (hand painted or ceramic)
• Painting to new shopfront and sign in high performance timber paint
• New leadwork over new shopfront