Number 59 And Attached Rear Courtyard Wall

Number 59 is a late 18th-century townhouse with a later shop, situated on Church Street in Falmouth. It has a double-depth plan house and a one-room-plan rear wing. The front elevation is faced with incised stucco on studwork, with slatehanging to the ground floor of the rear wing. The front has parallel roofs covered with scantle slate and brick stacks, the front stack featuring slate louvres. A late 19th-century cast-iron roof light is present on the rear roof, as is a 17th or 18th-century crested clay ridge tile. The rear wing has an asbestos slate hipped roof and cast-iron ogee gutters.

The house is three storeys high with an attic, and has a single-window range. Original or early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash windows are set within moulded architraves and simple hoods. The ground floor has an early to mid-19th-century shop front with panelled pilasters, a moulded fascia (later replaced in the late 20th century), and ventilation holes. A four-panel door with original flush bottom panels and later glazed top panels provides access, alongside a shop window with two later plate glass panes separated by a bull-nose mullion.

The rear wing is two storeys high over a basement, also with a single-window range. Notably, original or early 19th-century 16-pane horizontal-sliding sashes are present on the basement and first floor; a later 8-pane horizontal-sliding sash is on the second floor. A 20th-century glazed door is located to the left of the basement.

The interior remains simple and largely unaltered since the 19th century. Features include two 18th-century wooden chimney-pieces with moulded cornices and dentils, along with mid to late 19th-century iron grates on the second floor. A single 18th-century two-panel door opens to the attic, while the open-well staircase features turned newels, simple rectangular balusters, and a mid-19th-century cast-iron grate in a rear chamber on the first floor.

A tall, painted rubble wall with slate coping encloses the brick-paved rear courtyard on two sides, including a doorway in the centre of the side wall.