Former Drill Hall

FALMOUTH

SW8032NW BERKELEY VALE 843-1/6/38 (South side) Former Drill Hall

GV II

Drill hall, now an indoor market. 1874. Built to hold 1,000 persons. Killas rubble with granite dressings; dry Delabole slate roof gable end on to the street, plus 3 linked hipped roofs over wings on the right; front gable coped. Deep hall plan plus porch and changing rooms on the right. Gothic style with some classical style features. Symmetrical 3-bay front: 2-centred arch to large traceried rose window over pair of ordered round-arched doorways with carved capitals and imposts to clustered shafts; name panel above; flanking bays have 2-light transomed round-arched windows under hood-moulds all framed within pilasters with carved and moulded imposts to segmental arches; the mullions are slender shafts with carved capitals; behind these are hornless sash windows with glazing bars and fanlight heads. Rear has central rose window with latticed glazing. INTERIOR: wide-span tie-rod roof trusses; gallery at front end. (Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 105).

Listing NGR: SW8048632740