Falmouth School of Art Rosehill
FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART, WOODLANE
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- FALMOUTH SCHOOL OF ART, WOODLANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROSEHILL, WOODLANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460257
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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