Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032SE WOODLANE
843-1/10/237 (South side)
23/01/73 Rosehill (Falmouth School of Art)

GV II

Small country (later suburban) house, now the library of a
college. c1820 for Robert Were Fox. Stucco; asbestos slate
hipped roofs; 3 rendered stacks over road frontage; bracketed
eaves to entrance front. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys; 1:2:2-bay entrance front. Rusticated quoins. Flat
arches with keyblocks over original hornless sashes with
glazing bars. Pilastered bowed tripartite sash on slender
Tuscan columns as porch to doorway with original panelled door
and cobweb fanlight on the left, otherwise shallow latticed
wrought-iron balconies to 1st-floor windows; 2 projecting bays
on the right with round-arched window, with spoked fanlight
head, above 6-pane overlight and 6-panel door. Left-hand
return is 2-window range, also with iron balconies. Right-hand
return (road frontage) is incised stucco with 2 storeys of
blind windows flanking narrow stair window.
INTERIOR: retains most of its fine quality original features
including: doorways with moulded architraves and corner
blocks, 6-panel mahogany doors with inner beads and moulded
and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands, also some
central roses. Stair hall has an open-well staircase with
mahogany handrail over a cast-iron balustrade; panelled dado
and guilloche cornices below the landing and modillions with
roses to the ceiling cornice soffit above. Front left-hand
room space has a moulded band with a beaded cornice. The room
space behind has a Greek key band and a beaded cornice.
Right-hand room has acanthus detail. Other rooms not inspected
but likely to contain more features of interest.

Listing NGR: SW8070032246

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560006

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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