26, CHURCH STREET
26, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270108
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 26, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270108
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 26, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, 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:
- 26, 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 80918 32676
Details
FALMOUTH
SW8032NE CHURCH STREET 843-1/7/56 (West side) No.26
GV II
Former general post office, now a shop. C18 core; extended, refronted and remodelled 1867 at a cost of »1,300, paid for by 20 local businessmen. Stucco on masonry with asbestos slate roof. Deep plan. Classical style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front with flanking windows to 1st floor only, over low ope (passage) doorways. Rusticated quoins, moulded architraves, 2nd-floor sills on brackets to moulded string and heavy moulded parapet cornice linked to triangular pediment over centre bays broken forward; granite plinth. Original horned sashes. Ground-floor centre has 3 round arches (windows flanking lower central doorway) within Tuscan colonnade with consoles as keyblocks to windows under moulded entablature. Possibly original glazed door at far left, the other door C20. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: following a period of inadequate accommodation and inefficiency local businessmen each bought between one and 5 shares to a total of 40, each worth »50. The resulting purpose-built premises made it easier to handle the newly-introduced (1869) electric telegraph as the Falmouth office dealt with overseas calls. This was Falmouth's post office until the present one was built on The Moor in 1929. (Gilson P: Falmouth in Old Photographs: Falmouth: 1990-: 53; Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 105).
Listing NGR: SW8091832676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460103
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gilson, P, Falmouth in Old Photographs, (1990), 53
Kellys Directory in Cornwall, (1910), 105
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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