Number 10 and Attached Steps and Forecourt Walls and Rear Boundary Wall on Right
NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED STEPS AND FORECOURT WALLS AND REAR BOUNDARY WALL ON RIGHT, 10, DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270050
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Number 10 and Attached Steps and Forecourt Walls and Rear Boundary Wall on Right
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED STEPS AND FORECOURT WALLS AND REAR BOUNDARY WALL ON RIGHT, 10, DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270050
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Number 10 and Attached Steps and Forecourt Walls and Rear Boundary Wall on Right
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED STEPS AND FORECOURT WALLS AND REAR BOUNDARY WALL ON RIGHT, 10, DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE
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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:
- NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED STEPS AND FORECOURT WALLS AND REAR BOUNDARY WALL ON RIGHT, 10, DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE
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 80510 33334
Details
FALMOUTH
SW8033SE DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE 843-1/5/84 No.10 and attached steps and forecourt walls and rear boundary wall on right
GV II
Probable sea captain's house. Late C18 or early C19, front remodelled c1910 for Dr. Banks. Granite ashlar with mid-floor strings; flat arches with projecting keyblocks to original 2nd-floor openings and moulded cornice to parapet; asbestos slate roof with gabled dormer on the right and brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys plus attic over basement; symmetrical 3-window front. Late C19 horned sashes with glazing bars except for c1910 central 1st-floor 4-light transomed bowed window with moulded cornice to half-conical lead roof over larger-plan bowed transomed glazed porch with pair of glazed and panelled doors and moulded entablature. Flanking 2-storey-over-basement canted bay windows with moulded entablature, plus modillions to 1st floor. Basement windows have keyed round arches. INTERIOR: right-hand front room has marble chimney-piece with corner blocks and roundels and cast-iron grate surround with cabled decoration, and moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornice. Entrance and stair hall have moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands with egg and dart enrichment; arch between entrance hall and stair hall and an impressive open-well staircase rising through 3 floors with open string, turned balusters and pendants, all probably 1910. Some panelled doors and moulded architraves SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wide flight of granite steps to square slender granite gate piers with moulded cornices to pyramidal caps; low flanking walls surmounted by ornate cast-iron railings salvaged from another property. Rear garden wall, the boundary between Nos 10 and 12 (qv), is a high killas rubble wall with a scantle slate coping and red clay ridge tiles. This house is part of a group of C18 and early C19 houses prominent in views of Falmouth from across the Penryn River and from Carrick Roads.
Listing NGR: SW8051033334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460129
- 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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