1, Frances Street

This is a small town house and shop, dating from the 1830s, built for developer Josephus Ferris. It is situated on the corner of Frances Street and Little Castle Street in Truro.

The building is constructed with incised stucco on a timber studwork frame, and has an asbestos slate roof with a hipped return on the left side. The layout is shallow, incorporating a corner shop with a curved angle on the left, which connects to an entrance hall for Little Castle Street. To the right is a small house, the plan of which was altered when the shop was incorporated. The front facing Frances Street has two storeys and three windows, while the front facing Little Castle Street has two storeys and two windows. One original 16-pane hornless sash window remains in the middle of the Frances Street front; the other windows are later replacements.

The building features a plinth and round-headed doorways with rustication. The Frances Street doorway now has a 20th-century sash window, which was originally a window. The Little Castle Street entrance has a 20th-century door and plain fanlight. The 19th-century shop front has a doorway on the splay and a bowed angle above. It includes fluted terminal pilasters, slender iron stanchions flanking the doorway, and the original fascia with a flat cornice. The interior of the building was not inspected.