Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE CHURCH STREET
843-1/7/69 (East side)
05/08/92 No.59
and attached rear courtyard wall

GV II

Town house with later shop. Late C18. Incised stucco on
studwork to front and part of rear wing; slatehanging to
ground floor of rear wing; grouted scantle slate parallel
front roofs with brick stacks on the left, the front stack
with slate louvres; 2 roof lights to rear roof of the 2, one
is late C19 and cast-iron; one C17 or C18 crested clay ridge
tile; rear wing with asbestos slate hipped roof at right
angles, both roofs with cast-iron ogee gutters. Double-depth
plan house plus one-room-plan rear wing.
3 storeys plus attic; one-window range. Original or early C19
16-pane hornless sashes within moulded architraves and simple
hoods. Ground floor has early to mid C19 shop front with
panelled pilasters and moulded fascia returned at the ends and
with ventilation holes; late C20 plain fascia in front;
4-panel door with original flush bottom panels and later
glazed top panels; the shop window with 2 later plate glass
panes with bull-nose mullion between. Rear wing is 2 storeys
over basement; one-window range. Original or early C19 16-pane
horizontal-sliding sashes (rare and notable examples) to
basement and 1st floor; later 8-pane horizontal-sliding sash
to 2nd floor; C20 glazed door to left of basement.
INTERIOR is simple but little altered since the C19. Features
include 2 C18 wooden chimney-pieces with moulded cornices and
dentils and mid/late C19 iron grates (2nd floor); one C18
2-panel door to attic; open-well staircase with turned newels
and rectangular balusters and a mid C19 cast-iron
flying-horseshoe grate to 1st-floor rear chamber.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: tall painted rubble wall on 2 sides of a
brick-paved rear courtyard; slate coping; doorway to centre of
side wall.

Listing NGR: SW8090732818

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560150

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)