FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART ROSEHILL

FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART, WOODLANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269924
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART ROSEHILL
Statutory Address:: FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART, WOODLANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269924
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART ROSEHILL
Statutory Address 1:: FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART, WOODLANE
Statutory Address 2:: ROSEHILL, WOODLANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART, WOODLANE
Statutory Address:: ROSEHILL, WOODLANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Falmouth
National Grid Reference:: SW8070032246

Details

FALMOUTH

SW8032SE WOODLANE 843-1/10/237 (South side) 23/01/73 Rosehill (Falmouth School of Art)

GV II

Small country (later suburban) house, now the library of a college. c1820 for Robert Were Fox. Stucco; asbestos slate hipped roofs; 3 rendered stacks over road frontage; bracketed eaves to entrance front. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 1:2:2-bay entrance front. Rusticated quoins. Flat arches with keyblocks over original hornless sashes with glazing bars. Pilastered bowed tripartite sash on slender Tuscan columns as porch to doorway with original panelled door and cobweb fanlight on the left, otherwise shallow latticed wrought-iron balconies to 1st-floor windows; 2 projecting bays on the right with round-arched window, with spoked fanlight head, above 6-pane overlight and 6-panel door. Left-hand return is 2-window range, also with iron balconies. Right-hand return (road frontage) is incised stucco with 2 storeys of blind windows flanking narrow stair window. INTERIOR: retains most of its fine quality original features including: doorways with moulded architraves and corner blocks, 6-panel mahogany doors with inner beads and moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands, also some central roses. Stair hall has an open-well staircase with mahogany handrail over a cast-iron balustrade; panelled dado and guilloche cornices below the landing and modillions with roses to the ceiling cornice soffit above. Front left-hand room space has a moulded band with a beaded cornice. The room space behind has a Greek key band and a beaded cornice. Right-hand room has acanthus detail. Other rooms not inspected but likely to contain more features of interest.

Listing NGR: SW8070032246

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Legacy System number:: 460257
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.