Church Row

A planned terrace of five houses, built in 1821 for sea captains. The front is stuccoed, built on a rubble core of Pentewan stone, with window and door dressings of granite, likely originating from Polrudden Manor, dating to the 16th or 17th century. The roofs are dry slate, and the end stacks are stuccoed. The houses have a double-depth plan, with two main rooms at the front and smaller service rooms at the rear. Nos. 5–8 are in a Tudor Gothic style.

The terrace is two storeys high; No. 4 (Hillcroft) has a basement and a two-window front, while Nos. 5–8 have a symmetrical seven-window front with a slightly projecting central bay and a hipped roof. A full-length slate-roofed verandah, supported by a colonnade of slender Tuscan columns, runs along the front. No. 4 has a wide Venetian window on the ground floor. Nos. 5–8 have three-light mullioned windows with square hoodmoulds, some retaining original 1821 leaded glass and central inward-opening casements. The doorways alternate between square-headed and round-arched designs, with hoodmoulds and original studded doors. There are two half-dome niches. The colonnade sits on a low granite-coped rubble retaining wall, accessed by short flights of granite steps. The rear elevation has hipped service wings and stone steps leading up to a quarried bank; many original centre-hung casement windows with glazing bars remain.

The interior of No. 6, the only one inspected, features an original staircase with stick balusters and a moulded, ramped handrail. The left-hand front room has a large fireplace, and the right-hand front room has a smaller one. The terrace is a notable example of its type, situated prominently overlooking the early 19th-century china clay harbour. The original plan was to construct a similar group to the right of the Church of All Saints to create a symmetrical composition with the church as the central feature.