Newquay Lodge

Newquay Lodge is a house in a row, dating from the very early 18th century. It is built of shale rubble, mostly featuring slate hanging and render on the front ground floor, with slate sills. The steep asbestos slate roof has brick chimneys over the gable ends, with an external breast on the right-hand gable end, which is now mostly enclosed by a house built around the 1820s to the right. The front has a projecting box in the eaves that may obscure an 18th-century cornice.

The layout includes a large parlour on the left and a small parlour on the right, with a wide passage between leading to an original three-storey gable-ended stair turret projection. This is flanked by later service rooms in a two-storey outshut on the left and a lean-to on the right, which is now part of Newquay House. The house has three storeys and a regular four-window west road front, featuring late 19th-century 12-pane horned sash windows. The doorway, located third from the left on the ground floor, has an early 19th-century six-panel door with an overlight, set back within a wooden doorcase topped with a low-pitched gabled and eared cornice.

Inside, the house retains much of its original carpentry and joinery, including two-panel doors with HL hinges and architraves in most rooms. The dog-leg stair has a closed string, widely spaced turned column balusters, and a moulded handrail, with square newel posts and turned caps featuring mahogany graining. The large parlour on the left boasts impressive features, including a bolection-moulded wooden chimney piece with pilaster caps and an overmantle that breaks forward from the moulded ceiling cornice, framing a fine torus-moulded ceiling with an inner oval and ogee-shaped corners on the outer moulding. There is also a panelled door to a cupboard on the left of the fireplace, which has a basket-arched tympanum. The first-floor right-hand chamber has a similar chimney piece and moulded ceiling cornice. Newquay Lodge is an imposing house, very noticeable when viewed across the river from Falmouth, and it features a fine 18th-century interior.