Bar Terrace

This is a short terrace of four houses located in Falmouth, built in the early to mid-19th century. The houses are constructed of stucco over a likely rubble base, with hipped roofs covered in asbestos slates on the left and concrete tiles on the right. Brick stacks are centrally located and at the ends of the terrace. The design uses a double-depth plan, creating an overall frontage of six windows. A prominent feature is the use of giant, fluted Roman Doric columns, flanking each pair of houses. The ground floor has a plinth, recessed round-arched architraves, and an impost string. Above this is a sill string and shaped aprons to the first floor. Projecting eaves are supported by paired brackets with a panelled soffit. Each pair of houses presents a symmetrical three-window front, with a central doorway and a lean-to porch at either end. Original twelve-pane hornless sash windows are present, and fanlights are above the panelled front doors. The porches have fretted fronts and doorways with two-centred arches over fluted columns. The third house from the left (number 4) has a distinctive Gothic style gabled porch, featuring fretted sides and a fretted two-centred arched truss supported by wall-plate brackets over slender columns. The interior remains uninspected, but is likely to contain features of interest. The terrace is a notable example of design, distinguished by the application of the giant Roman Doric columns which divide the houses.