8, St Thomas Street

No. 8 St Thomas Street is a town house, likely built as a merchant's house in the 17th century, possibly for Thomas Melhuish in 1656. The property features a rendered front that replaces stucco, with a timber-framed jettied design between rendered rubble side walls, which are corbelled out for each floor. It has a steep dry slate roof with a gable end facing the street and a rubble axial stack that has been heightened with brick. The house has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall, including a second floor that is partly in the roof space. The first floor has a two-window range, with 20th-century twelve-pane horned sash windows and a pair of 16-pane two-light casements in the gable. The ground floor includes two 17th-century ovolo-moulded oak doorframes with ogee stops on the left, leading to a 20th-century six-panel door that fronts a through-passage. There is also a 20th-century top-glazed door next to an early 19th-century eighteen-pane projecting shop window with sidelights. The interior retains old floor and roof structures and may have a stair or garderobe recess on the right-hand wall. This house is a notable example of a 17th-century merchant's house in West Cornwall, featuring a gable end and a right-angled plan to the street.