8, Queen Street

The building at 8 Queen Street, Lostwithiel, is a house, likely dating to around 1730, that has undergone alterations in the 19th century and later. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble with an asbestos slate hipped roof, featuring ridge coping tiles and one remaining stack to the right side. The rear roof slope is corrugated asbestos. The building has a double-depth plan with principal rooms on the front right and left, and a stair tower positioned centrally at the rear, partially enclosed by service rooms. A two-storey service wing was added to the rear right in the 19th century. The ground floor room on the right was converted into a shop in the late 19th century and the upper floors have been divided into separate accommodations; a stair was removed between the ground and first floors.

The front has two storeys and a plinth, with a symmetrical five-bay facade, except for the shop on the right. The central ground floor entrance has a six-panelled door with an overlight, Ionic pilasters, and a pediment incorporating dentils and egg and dart mouldings. There are two 18-pane sashes to the left and a 19th-century triple plate-glass sash to the right, used as a shop window. A string course with dentils and egg and dart mouldings runs along the front, with a moulded eaves cornice above; there are two roof lights, possibly former dormers. The right side has half-glazed double doors leading to the shop on the left, and two plate-glass sashes on the right. The first floor features two 2-light 19th-century casements. A slightly projecting two-storey service wing sits on the right, with two 2-light casements at first floor and two 20th-century windows at ground floor. A stack is located at the rear of the main range, originally servicing the rear right room.

The rear elevation includes a hipped roof stair tower with an 18-pane sash with thick glazing bars on the ground floor and a six-pane casement on the first floor, alongside a 20th-century cellar door. Service rooms enclose the stair tower on both sides, with a 20th-century door and four-pane light to the left and a glazed door and 20th-century window to the right. The first floor of the enclosing service rooms has two 20th-century windows.

Interiorly, the three front rooms on the first floor retain two-panelled and fielded doors and plain moulded plaster cornices. A staircase remains connecting the first floor to the attic, consisting of a straight flight with stick balusters alternating with turned balusters.