Number 59 and Attached Rear Courtyard Wall
NUMBER 59 AND ATTACHED REAR COURTYARD WALL, 59, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270079
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Number 59 and Attached Rear Courtyard Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 59 AND ATTACHED REAR COURTYARD WALL, 59, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270079
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Number 59 and Attached Rear Courtyard Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 59 AND ATTACHED REAR COURTYARD WALL, 59, CHURCH STREET
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:
- NUMBER 59 AND ATTACHED REAR COURTYARD WALL, 59, CHURCH STREET
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 80907 32818
Details
FALMOUTH
SW8032NE CHURCH STREET 843-1/7/69 (East side) 05/08/92 No.59 and attached rear courtyard wall
GV II
Town house with later shop. Late C18. Incised stucco on studwork to front and part of rear wing; slatehanging to ground floor of rear wing; grouted scantle slate parallel front roofs with brick stacks on the left, the front stack with slate louvres; 2 roof lights to rear roof of the 2, one is late C19 and cast-iron; one C17 or C18 crested clay ridge tile; rear wing with asbestos slate hipped roof at right angles, both roofs with cast-iron ogee gutters. Double-depth plan house plus one-room-plan rear wing. 3 storeys plus attic; one-window range. Original or early C19 16-pane hornless sashes within moulded architraves and simple hoods. Ground floor has early to mid C19 shop front with panelled pilasters and moulded fascia returned at the ends and with ventilation holes; late C20 plain fascia in front; 4-panel door with original flush bottom panels and later glazed top panels; the shop window with 2 later plate glass panes with bull-nose mullion between. Rear wing is 2 storeys over basement; one-window range. Original or early C19 16-pane horizontal-sliding sashes (rare and notable examples) to basement and 1st floor; later 8-pane horizontal-sliding sash to 2nd floor; C20 glazed door to left of basement. INTERIOR is simple but little altered since the C19. Features include 2 C18 wooden chimney-pieces with moulded cornices and dentils and mid/late C19 iron grates (2nd floor); one C18 2-panel door to attic; open-well staircase with turned newels and rectangular balusters and a mid C19 cast-iron flying-horseshoe grate to 1st-floor rear chamber. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: tall painted rubble wall on 2 sides of a brick-paved rear courtyard; slate coping; doorway to centre of side wall.
Listing NGR: SW8090732818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460116
- 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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