Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE BELL'S COURT 843-1/7/34 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive) 22/07/49

GV II

Two attached houses, later 4 houses, now a club and a museum. C17, remodelled early C18, house on right (Nos 1 & 2) mostly rebuilt c1980. Rubble walls; steep roofs: asbestos slate to Nos 3 & 4; dry slate to No.2. Single-depth plan plus extensions behind No.3. 2 storeys; overall 8-window range. Nos 3 & 4 are a 5-window range with early C18 hornless sashes with thick glazing bars (except early C19 sash on right) flanking original 2-storey deep-plan steep pedimented gabled porch, slate-hung to 1st floor with central pair of late C18 or early C19 12-pane hornless sashes and open below carried on 4 granite Tuscan columns with entablature above the capitals. Doorway within porch on the left with C18 panelled door; 2 windows on either side of the doorway (the one right of doorway within the porch) and further doorway at far right with old 6-panel door; early to mid C19 12-pane hornless sashes on the left and possibly later 8-pane sashes on the right. No.2 is a C20-replica symmetrical 3-window front with ground-floor windows closer to gabled 2-storey porch on 4 incorrectly copied granite columns; C20 copy sashes and C20 door. No.1 is a single-storey rendered wing projecting forward at far right, also with C20 sashes. INTERIOR: has some C18 fielded panelling in the right-hand room and a moulded ceiling cornice; window shutters to ground-floor rooms; Straight-flight staircase probably also C18. HISTORY: Captain George Bell resided here 1764 (date plaque). See also Nos 1 and 2 Stratton Place (qv).











Listing NGR: SW8077732895

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets