Falmouth School Of Art Rosehill

A small country house, later adapted for suburban use, built around 1820 for Robert Were Fox, and now serving as a library within a college. The house is constructed of stucco with asbestos slate hipped roofs, featuring three rendered chimney stacks along the road frontage and bracketed eaves on the entrance front. It follows a double-depth plan.

The two-storey, 1:2:2-bay entrance front shows rusticated quoins. It features flat arches with keyblocks above original hornless sash windows with glazing bars. A bowed tripartite sash window is framed by slender Tuscan columns, forming a porch and sheltering a panelled door with a cobweb fanlight on the left side. Shallow, latticed wrought-iron balconies are present on the first-floor windows. Two projecting bays on the right incorporate a round-arched window above a six-pane overlight and a six-panel door. The left-hand return has a two-window range, also with iron balconies. The right-hand return, facing the road, is characterized by incised stucco and two storeys of blind windows flanking a narrow stair window.

The interior retains many original features of high quality, including doorways with moulded architraves and corner blocks, six-panel mahogany doors with inner beads, moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands, and central plaster roses. The stair hall contains an open-well staircase with a mahogany handrail over a cast-iron balustrade, a panelled dado, guilloche cornices beneath the landing, and modillions with roses to the ceiling cornice soffit. Specific rooms feature decorative bands: one has a moulded band with a beaded cornice, another a Greek key band and a beaded cornice, and a third displays acanthus detail. Other rooms were not inspected but likely contain further features of interest.