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Broad Street, PENRYN, TR10 8JH

Former library, Penryn.

Bar & restaurant, with bed & breakfast accommodation available.

The St Thomas Street library is part of Cornwall Council's public library service.

Looking north-westward.

650 year old pub/hotel on Broad Street. Grade II listed since 1971 (http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-365719-the-kings-arms-hotel-penryn/osmap)

The former Fire Station building on the corner of Broad Street and St Thomas Street dates from 1899. The roundel on the wall depicts a fireman's helmet, the metal part of a hosepipe and an axe. On the lower edge of the roundel are the words ALWAYS READY. The building was Grade II listed in 1971.

Fire engines were evidently small in those days.

Grade II Listed 17th century public house refronted mid 19th century. The Hotels website claims that the building dates back at least 650-700 years to around 1350. Prior to being an Inn it was the home of Benjamin Coode, a surgeon and Edward Coode, also a surgeon and apothecary. A King's Arms Hotel is first referenced in 1489 when many of King Henry VII's party stayed whilst en route to fetch Katherine of Aragon to marry his son. A former coaching inn, Disraeli reportedly stayed here between 1817 and 1831. Directory entries include; 1830-1852 John Powell; 1856 Mrs Jane Powell; 1873-1914 Arthur George Chapman, wine & spirit merchant. brewer, maltster & hop merchant; the most direct route for posting to the Lizard, Kynance Cove & other places of interest, posting- in all its branches.

This mark can be found on the roadside wall of a building in Broad Street, Penryn. The benchmark height is recorded as being 19.3931 metres above sea level. For more detail see : http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm24772

Grade II Listed fire station of 1899. The site had formerly been owned by Penryn MP and Pendennis Castle governor Sir Nicholas Slanning, who died for the royalist cause during the English Civil War. The site was acquired in 1887. Until then it had been a dwelling, and in 1899 a new fire station was built, although reportedly the firemen still had to catch the horses for the engine from a field near St Gluvias Church. It is possible that the building may have re-used earlier elements. The 1940s brought a new fire station and in the decades that followed it was used as a shop, veterinary practice, cafe, and finally in the late 1980s or early 1990s flats, before lying empty from the mid 2000s. In early 2017 application was made to renovate it into two flats.