Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE CHURCH STREET
843-1/7/51 (West side)
No.19

GV II

Shop premises. 1908 date plaque. Lavishly detailed painted
terracotta and render on probable brick: original scantle
slate roof. Mannerist Classical style.
3 storeys; 3 bays to 2nd floor with 1:3:1 lights with glazing
bars. Paired pilasters with entablature flanking wide Venetian
window with moulded hood to 1st floor under moulded mid-floor
cornice. End pilasters to 2nd floor linked to moulded parapet
cornice under shaped parapet with coping cornice, the centre
rising higher as open pediment with short end pilasters
framing Baroque-style carved tympanum with date panel. Moulded
sills, eared architraves, console keyblocks and mid-window
band. 1st-floor window has central 3-light transomed mullion
with glazing bars above transom; carved panels to flanking
pilasters. Shop front has large plate-glass windows and deep
splayed doorway on the left with spoked fanlight; panelled
soffit over entrance. INTERIOR not inspected.
A striking composition, similarly treated to the right return
wall. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SW8090632722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560170

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)