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48, Arwenack Street

A Grade II* Listed Building in Falmouth, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.152 / 50°9'7"N

Longitude: -5.0657 / 5°3'56"W

OS Eastings: 181092

OS Northings: 32491

OS Grid: SW810324

Mapcode National: GBR ZD.TJJ7

Mapcode Global: FRA 088M.B92

Plus Code: 9C2P5W2M+QP

Entry Name: 48, Arwenack Street

Listing Date: 22 July 1949

Last Amended: 22 July 1996

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1270121

English Heritage Legacy ID: 460074

ID on this website: 101270121

Location: Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Falmouth

Built-Up Area: Falmouth

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Falmouth King Charles the Martyr

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description



FALMOUTH

SW8132NW ARWENACK STREET
843-1/8/24 (South West side)
22/07/49 No.48

GV II*

Pair of town houses, now an office. c1770s, built for George
Croker Fox (1727-1782). Red brick on rubble with granite
ashlar basement/plinth; slurried scantle slate hipped roof.
Double-depth plan plus wing at rear left. 3 storeys over
basement; symmetrical 2:1:2-bay front with doorways to bays
flanking central bay. Mid-floor brick strings and modillion
cornice to brick parapet except for turned balustrade over
central bay.
Flat brick arches with granite keys over original 12-pane
hornless sashes including 3 sashes to each floor of central
canted bay; squat 3-pane basement windows. Open-pedimented
half-column pilastered doorways with panelled reveals;
round-arched cobweb fanlights; panelled doors; granite steps
with wreathed wrought-iron hand-rails.
INTERIOR: has some original features where inspected
including: moulded ceiling cornice to ground-floor room and
open-well staircase with open string and ramped mahogany
handrail; mahogany doors and panelled window shutters to
1st-floor front rooms.
This building, which is an unusually early example of a
semi-detached plan with a unified "palace" front, is part of
an important group of C18 and early C19 buildings.
(GC Fox and Co: GC Fox and Co 1762-1977: Falmouth: 1977-).

Listing NGR: SW8109232491

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