8, West Street

No. 8 West Street is a town house from the 18th century, with a datestone inside the front wall dating to 1728 and inscribed "LTF". The building features incised stucco on a rubble front and has a steep dry slate roof with a rendered stack on the right. It has a shallow-depth plan with a wing at right angles to the rear left. The house is two storeys over a basement and has a symmetrical three-window front, although the central window is blocked. The windows are 20th-century six-pane horned sashes. The central doorway is cambered and has a recessed four-panel top-glazed door, which is approached by a flight of six granite steps. The rear wing includes a window with a central lozenge pane on the first floor of the gable end. The interior, when inspected in 1980, retained many 18th-century features, including a dog-leg stair with turned balusters, panelled and planked doors, original floors, partitions, and pegged roof structures. A bolection-moulded chimneypiece, salvaged from a skip, is now reused at Croft West, Kenwyn CP.