No 1 With Attached Forecourt Walls And Attached Garden Walls

No. 1 with attached forecourt walls and attached garden walls is a town house located in Helston, dating from the early 18th century, with its front remodeled in the early 19th century. The building features stucco on rubble with a basement serving as a plinth, a mid-floor band adorned with laced strapwork, and a parapet cornice with egg and dart detailing. It has steep dry slate and scantle slate roofs with brick end stacks, characterized by parallel roofs of unequal height and a central valley. The overall plan is L-shaped, including a service wing at right angles on the right, which incorporates No. 50 Church Street.

The house has two storeys over a basement and a symmetrical five-window front. The early 19th-century twelve-pane hornless sash windows are positioned above the original two-light stuccoed chamfered granite mullioned windows in the basement. The central doorway features a pair of early 20th-century panelled and leaded glazed doors, sheltered by a distyle Doric porch with fluted columns and an entablature with triglyphs. The rear of the building retains some original sashes with thick glazing bars, including a stair window.

Inside, the property preserves most of its original or 18th-century features, such as an open-well staircase with turned balusters and panelled newels. The left-hand parlour boasts bolection-moulded panelling and a chimney-piece with an 18th-century painting of ships above the overmantel, which is a particularly notable feature. The right-hand parlour has fielded panelling, moulded ceiling cornices, panelled doors, and moulded doorcases. A larger first-floor chamber features ovolo-moulded panelling.

Additional features include a low granite ashlar forecourt wall parallel to the front, which has an 18th or early 19th-century wrought-iron gateway with open gate piers decorated with spiral motifs and turned finials, as well as a gate with arrow-head finials. The tall rubble garden wall has scantle slate coping and a red clay ridge tile, incorporating many 17th-century crested tiles. No. 50 Church Street is also listed.