Number 10 And Attached Steps And Forecourt Walls And Rear Boundary Wall On Right

Number 10 is likely a former sea captain's house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with a front remodelled around 1910 for Dr. Banks. The building is constructed of granite ashlar and features mid-floor strings, flat arches with projecting keyblocks above the original second-floor openings, and a moulded cornice at the parapet. The roof is covered with asbestos slate and includes a gabled dormer on the right, along with brick end stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys plus an attic over a basement, with a symmetrical three-window front. The late 19th-century horned sash windows have glazing bars, except for the central first-floor window, which is a four-light transomed bowed window from around 1910, topped with a moulded cornice and a half-conical lead roof. This window is part of a larger bowed transomed glazed porch with a pair of glazed and panelled doors and a moulded entablature. Flanking the porch are two-storey-over-basement canted bay windows with moulded entablatures and modillions on the first floor. The basement windows feature keyed round arches.

Inside, the right-hand front room has a marble chimney-piece with corner blocks and roundels, along with a cast-iron grate surround decorated with cables, and a moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornice. The entrance and stair hall are adorned with moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands featuring egg and dart enrichment. There is an arch between the entrance hall and stair hall, and an impressive open-well staircase that rises through three floors, featuring an open string, turned balusters, and pendants, likely dating from 1910. Some panelled doors and moulded architraves are also present.

The property includes subsidiary features such as a wide flight of granite steps leading to square slender granite gate piers topped with moulded cornices and pyramidal caps. Low flanking walls are surmounted by ornate cast-iron railings salvaged from another property. The rear garden wall, which serves as the boundary between Number 10 and Number 12, is a high killas rubble wall topped with scantle slate coping and red clay ridge tiles. This house is part of a group of 18th and early 19th-century houses that are prominent in views of Falmouth from across the Penryn River and from Carrick Roads.