NOS. 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS

NOS. 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1 AND 2, STRATTON PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269964
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: NOS. 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NOS. 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1 AND 2, STRATTON PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269964
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Apr-1996
List Entry Name:: NOS. 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1 AND 2, STRATTON PLACE

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:: NOS. 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1 AND 2, STRATTON PLACE

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 80471 33482

Details

FALMOUTH

SW8033SW STRATTON PLACE 843-1/4/188 Nos.1 AND 2 23/01/73 and attached front garden walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: STRATTON PLACE Nos.1 AND 2)

GV II

Pair of houses. c1793. For Francis Basset, Lord De Dunstanville, and No.2 (right) let to Captain Couse 1793-1799. Granite ashlar basement, otherwise brick fronted (No.1 painted); dry slate roof to No.1, asbestos slate to No.2; brick end stacks and 4 C20 roof dormers. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys plus later attics over basement; each house with symmetrical 5-window front. Painted quoins, mid-floor string; rosettes and triglyphs to eaves cornice. Keyblocks to flat brick arches over late C19 or C20 2-pane horned sashes. Each house has original round-arched central doorway with open pediment and Roman Doric fluted half-columns and spoked fanlights over 6-panel doors. INTERIOR of No.2 has good quality original and early C19 features: heavy moulded cornice to left-hand room; eared chimney-piece to right-hand room; open-well open-string staircase with stick balusters; some moulded cornices with bands, window shutters and panelled doors. No.1 not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubble and brick front garden walls, with renewed plain railings to front, and mid C19 wrought-iron gates with fleur-de-lis finials. HISTORY: Captain Charles Couse had married a local girl, Catherine Bell, the daughter of the Packet Agent George Bell (Bell's Court, qv). Subsequently he was appointed Captain of the Packet Ship Walsingham and later the Roebuck. He was later dismissed from the Packet Service and had to leave this house. (1993-).

Listing NGR: SW8047133482

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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.