The Cottage

FALMOUTH

SW73SE ASHFIELD, Ponsharden 843-1/1/239 The Cottage

II

House, said to have been a dower house, Probably C18, extended mid C19 and C20. Render on probable rubble and cob and wheat-reed roof to original part; painted killas rubble with granite dressings and hipped dry Delabole slate roof with projecting eaves to 1st extension; brick stack on the right. Originally a 2-room plan house, then extended with a wing at right angles to rear right and a double-depth wing on the right, projecting at the front, finally in the C20 extended further at rear. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front to original house plus one-window range of front end of wing on the right. Original part has early/mid C19 Gothic style 3-light casement windows with latticed panes to central lights and horizontal panes to the side lights; arched heads to 1st-floor windows with intersecting glazing bars; some original panes of crown glass; 4-panel door. Wing has central late C19 or early C20 horned sash with margin panes in original opening over canted pilastered bay window of the same date. Right-hand return has 2 original mid-C19 12-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor and a central segmental-arched window with margin panes. Rear has some C20 copies of the Gothic-style windows. INTERIOR: simple interior. Central staircase in original part with an oval open well, stick balusters and turned newels, the bottom newel with the letter S, probably for Stephens, the name of the family who lived here and had a rope works at Ponsharden; original pegged trusses and thatching battens. This is the only building left in Falmouth with a thatched roof.

Listing NGR: SW7938133660