Bank House
BANK HOUSE, 4, BANK PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270127
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HOUSE, 4, BANK PLACE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12747/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270127
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK HOUSE, 4, BANK PLACE
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:
- BANK HOUSE, 4, BANK 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 81135 32438
Details
FALMOUTH
SW8132SW BANK PLACE 843-1/11/30 No.4 22/07/49 Bank House
GV II
Large town house, now a hostel. 1788 for Robert Were Fox; c1868 remodelling and refronting. Stucco on brick; concrete tile to front roof, asbestos slate to parallel rear roof. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 5-window range with wider space between near central bay and bay on its right. Mid-floor strings, rusticated quoins, keyed moulded architraves with sill brackets and heavy moulded parapet cornice. Late C19 4-pane horned sashes. Near central tripartite porch with square columns, moulded entablature and parapet with moulded corner caps; Round-arched doorway with plain fanlight over 4-panel door. C20 lean-to extension to ground-floor right. INTERIOR: open-well open-string staircase and moulded ceiling cornice to entrance, otherwise not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: Bank House was a family home of the Fox family until 1864 when the lease was sold "to Mr John Downing who used the north end as a biscuit factory while his son, a coal merchant, used the basement and the yard for storing coal. In 1868 a fire swept through the building and the roof fell in, but so solidly had the house been built that the walls were intact". Bank House was repaired following the fire to become "the Bank House Hotel until taken over by the YMCA in the early 1930s". (Gilson P: Falmouth in Old Photographs: Falmouth: 1990-: 59).
Listing NGR: SW8113532438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460080
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gilson, P, Falmouth in Old Photographs, (1990), 59
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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