EARLE'S RETREAT

EARLE'S RETREAT, TRELAWNEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269946
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: EARLE'S RETREAT
Statutory Address:: EARLE'S RETREAT, TRELAWNEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269946
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: EARLE'S RETREAT
Statutory Address 1:: EARLE'S RETREAT, TRELAWNEY ROAD

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:: EARLE'S RETREAT, TRELAWNEY ROAD

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Falmouth
National Grid Reference:: SW 80711 32455

Details

FALMOUTH

SW8032SE TRELAWNEY ROAD 843-1/10/214 Earle's Retreat 23/01/73

GV II

Almshouses. 1869 by Alexander Lauder for George Earle to accommodate 32 persons. Squared rubble with polychrome dressings; dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gables to 3 cross wings and 6 dormered windows. PLAN: E-shaped at the front with loggias linking wings; central chapel deeper at rear. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys with 1st-floor rooms partly in roof space; 1:3:1:3:1-bays. Chapel front gable end has large Decorated style 3-light traceried window with hood-mould over 3 trefoiled niches with squat shafts. Each cross wing gable has shallow 2-centred arches over 3-light sash to 1st floor and 3 sashes to ground floor. Very shallow arches to dormers with paired sashes. Each loggia is 5 bays of pointed arches on round piers with carved capitals; moulded entablature to loggia balustrade. Within each loggia are paired sashes flanking central 3-light sash. INTERIOR not inspected. (Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 107).

Listing NGR: SW8071132455

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'Kellys Directory' in Cornwall, (1910), 107

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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.