Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE CHURCH STREET 843-1/7/56 (West side) No.26

GV II

Former general post office, now a shop. C18 core; extended, refronted and remodelled 1867 at a cost of »1,300, paid for by 20 local businessmen. Stucco on masonry with asbestos slate roof. Deep plan. Classical style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front with flanking windows to 1st floor only, over low ope (passage) doorways. Rusticated quoins, moulded architraves, 2nd-floor sills on brackets to moulded string and heavy moulded parapet cornice linked to triangular pediment over centre bays broken forward; granite plinth. Original horned sashes. Ground-floor centre has 3 round arches (windows flanking lower central doorway) within Tuscan colonnade with consoles as keyblocks to windows under moulded entablature. Possibly original glazed door at far left, the other door C20. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: following a period of inadequate accommodation and inefficiency local businessmen each bought between one and 5 shares to a total of 40, each worth »50. The resulting purpose-built premises made it easier to handle the newly-introduced (1869) electric telegraph as the Falmouth office dealt with overseas calls. This was Falmouth's post office until the present one was built on The Moor in 1929. (Gilson P: Falmouth in Old Photographs: Falmouth: 1990-: 53; Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 105).











Listing NGR: SW8091832676

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