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

FALMOUTH

SW8033SE DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE 843-1/5/84 No.10 and attached steps and forecourt walls and rear boundary wall on right

GV II

Probable sea captain's house. Late C18 or early C19, front remodelled c1910 for Dr. Banks. Granite ashlar with mid-floor strings; flat arches with projecting keyblocks to original 2nd-floor openings and moulded cornice to parapet; asbestos slate roof with gabled dormer on the right and brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys plus attic over basement; symmetrical 3-window front. Late C19 horned sashes with glazing bars except for c1910 central 1st-floor 4-light transomed bowed window with moulded cornice to half-conical lead roof over larger-plan bowed transomed glazed porch with pair of glazed and panelled doors and moulded entablature. Flanking 2-storey-over-basement canted bay windows with moulded entablature, plus modillions to 1st floor. Basement windows have keyed round arches. INTERIOR: right-hand front room has marble chimney-piece with corner blocks and roundels and cast-iron grate surround with cabled decoration, and moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornice. Entrance and stair hall have moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands with egg and dart enrichment; arch between entrance hall and stair hall and an impressive open-well staircase rising through 3 floors with open string, turned balusters and pendants, all probably 1910. Some panelled doors and moulded architraves SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wide flight of granite steps to square slender granite gate piers with moulded cornices to pyramidal caps; low flanking walls surmounted by ornate cast-iron railings salvaged from another property. Rear garden wall, the boundary between Nos 10 and 12 (qv), is a high killas rubble wall with a scantle slate coping and red clay ridge tiles. This house is part of a group of C18 and early C19 houses prominent in views of Falmouth from across the Penryn River and from Carrick Roads.

Listing NGR: SW8051033334