44 and 46, Meneage Street

A pair of town houses with two later shops, built in the mid-18th century in Helston. The front is rendered over a rubble base, with rubble to the rear, partly painted. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in scantle slate, with rendered end stacks. The houses have a double-depth plan, including a rear wing set at a right angle. They are two storeys high with a four-window front. The second window from the left retains an original horizontal-sliding sash window, with some thick glazing bars remaining on the right-hand side. The other windows are late 19th-century horned sashes, including a canted oriel with a polygonal slate roof and a ball finial on the left. On the ground floor, there is a small two-light shop window within a former opening on the left, a doorway positioned beneath the second window, and a late 20th-century shopfront, originally altered from a late 19th or early 20th-century design, with pilasters at each end, on the right-hand side of No. 46. The rear of No. 44 has an original first-floor window with thick glazing bars to the right-hand light. Inside No. 44 is a rare 18th-century chinoiserie staircase and original ceiling joists to a rear room, though the rest of the interior was not inspected.