The Vicarage

This is an early 19th century suburban villa, later used as a vicarage, with a remodelled front dating to the late 19th century. The construction is stucco over rubble, featuring a plinth and a moulded first-floor string. It has a dry slate roof with projecting eaves, and four stuccoed chimney stacks, one axial, one to the rear left, and two on the right. The house has a double-depth plan.

The symmetrical front façade has three windows and is of a late 19th century design. It contains four-pane horned sash windows in original openings. A central pilastered doorcase with a moulded entablature leads to an original six-panel door with original furniture. The garden and roadside front has a paired sash window with chamfered architraves over a square-cornered two-light bay window with narrow sidelight returns on the left, and a two-storey canted bay on the right; both bay windows have pilaster mullions.

The interior retains a high quality of early 19th century Greek Revival features, including moulded and carved ceiling cornices, elaborate ceiling roses in the entrance hall and front reception rooms, six-panel mahogany doors with original furniture, moulded architraves with corner blocks and roundels, panelled window shutters, and elliptical arches on consoles between the vestibule and inner hall, between the inner hall and stair hall, and another to the rear of the inner reception room. A cantilevered, open-well stone staircase has a mahogany handrail on cast-iron balusters with anthemion decoration. A moulded marble chimney-piece, including corner blocks and roundels, is located in the room to the left of the main entrance. Plasterwork details include a guilloche band to the stair hall, and a Greek key and egg and dart pattern to the entrance hall. The house is part of a fine group of suburban villas visible in views of Falmouth from across the Penryn River and from the Carrick Roads.