Description

MAWGAN-IN-PYDAR ST MAWGAN
SW 86 NE
1/72 The Falcon Inn
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GV II

Inn. Circa 1840, with additions and alterations of later C19 and C20. Stone rubble
with brick and stone dressings. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and deep
bracketed eaves. Central front lateral stack with brick shaft.
Plan: Double depth plan, with central entrance and principal room to front right and
left; now all one room at ground floor. A wing was added to rear right, of 2-room
plan, with the rooms heated from an axial stack; this facade was treated as a garden
front, with service rooms to rear. One-room plan addition of C19 to the rear of the
rear wing, unheated.
Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front. Ground and first floor right and
left an early C19 2-light casement, 3 panes each light with Chinoiserie margin
glazing, segmental brick arches with keystones. First floor central blind painted
casement with similar arch and inn sign hanging in front of the window. Central 4-
panelled door with fanlight set in recessed round arch with brick head and keystone.
The right side has 6 similar 2-light Chinoiserie casements with brick segmental
arches and keystones at first floor. Second window from left blind. Ground floor
has 3 similar casements; third bay from left has an open-fronted porch with pitched
roof on granite Doric columns, with C20 half-glazed door. To right, there is a
recessed bay, with the upper storey supported on 2 granite Doric columns, forming a
covered area with half-glazed door and 2-light 3-pane casement; door to right and
left. Straight joint to right to the end bay with similar Chinoiserie casement at
ground and first floor. The rear of the wing has 4-pane sash at ground and first
floor and 4-pane sash at ground floor on the inner side. The main range has a door
and single storey lean-to to right with 2-light casement. The inner side of the
wing has 4 Chinoiserie 2-light casements at first floor. Ground floor has C20 door
and two 2-light casements to right; lean-to to left with door and two 2-light
casements.
Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW8729765892

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26437066

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