Description

FALMOUTH

SW8033NW STRATTON TERRACE 843-1/3/194 No.12 The Vicarage

GV II

Suburban villa, later and still a vicarage. Early C19, road front remodelled late C19. Stucco on rubble with plinth and moulded 1st-floor string; dry slate roof with projecting eaves; 4 stuccoed stacks, including one axial stack, one to rear left and 2 on the right. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window entrance front. Late C19 4-pane horned sashes in original openings. Central pilastered doorcase with moulded entablature; original 6-panel door with original door furniture. 2-window garden/road front has paired sash with chamfered architraves over square-cornered 2-light bay window with narrow sidelight returns, on the left, and 2-storey canted bay on the right, all the bay windows with pilaster mullions. INTERIOR retains most of its high quality early C19 Greek Revival features including moulded and carved ceiling cornices; elaborate ceiling roses to entrance hall and garden/road front reception rooms; 6-panel mahogany doors with original furniture; moulded architraves with corner blocks and roundels; panelled window shutters; elliptical arches on consoles between vestibule and inner hall and between inner hall and stair hall, another to rear of inner reception room; cantilevered stone open-well staircase with mahogany handrail on cast-iron balusters with anthemion decoration and a moulded marble chimney-piece with corner blocks and roundels to the room left of the entrance. The plaster decoration includes guilloche band to stair hall, Greek key and egg and dart to entrance halls. This house is part of a fine group of suburban villas prominent in views of Falmouth from across the Penryn River and from the Carrick Roads.











Listing NGR: SW8035033658

External Links

• Wikidata Q26560050

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)