Cornwall Buildings

A row of five houses built in the middle of the 18th century, with alterations in the 20th century. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, painted to the ground floor, with double-pitched pantile roofs. Some rear roofs have 20th-century double Roman tiles. The houses have moulded stacks to the party walls and ends, with most rear stacks truncated. They have a double-depth plan.

The houses are three storeys high, each with tripartite windows on the first and second floors. They have a coped parapet, a stopped cornice, and windows in raised surrounds. The first-floor windows are Venetian style, with shaped cornices. The ground floor has a platband and plinth, and the doors are six-panelled with glazed upper sections. Originally, the windows were six/six-pane sash windows. Number 109, on the left, is slightly taller and wider than the others, with a separate parapet and cornice, and plate glass sash windows, with horns on the first and ground floor. The right-hand door has an overlight. Windows at Number 111 have small panes and thick glazing bars; the Venetian window has Gothic glazing and crown glass, with splayed reveals to the ground floor. The door on the right-hand side is similar. Number 113 is similar in appearance to Number 111. Number 115 has plate glass windows with horns, and is otherwise similar to Numbers 111 and 113. Number 117 is similar to Number 115, with a door on the left. Number 119 is also similar to Number 115, and has a hood on brackets over the door. The interiors have not been inspected.

This section of Walcot Street was formerly known as Cornwall Street. The elevations are simpler versions of designs by Wood for Miles Buildings in Brock Street, as well as influencing St James’s Parade, also from the mid-1760s. The door hood at Number 119 suggests these were transitional houses, combining local late Baroque traditions with contemporary design trends.