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Earle's Retreat

A Grade II Listed Building in Falmouth, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.1515 / 50°9'5"N

Longitude: -5.071 / 5°4'15"W

OS Eastings: 180711

OS Northings: 32455

OS Grid: SW807324

Mapcode National: GBR ZD.TH4B

Mapcode Global: FRA 088M.885

Plus Code: 9C2P5W2H+JJ

Entry Name: Earle's Retreat

Listing Date: 23 January 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1269946

English Heritage Legacy ID: 460237

ID on this website: 101269946

Location: Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Falmouth

Built-Up Area: Falmouth

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Falmouth All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description



FALMOUTH

SW8032SE TRELAWNEY ROAD
843-1/10/214 Earle's Retreat
23/01/73

GV II

Almshouses. 1869 by Alexander Lauder for George Earle to
accommodate 32 persons. Squared rubble with polychrome
dressings; dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gables to
3 cross wings and 6 dormered windows.
PLAN: E-shaped at the front with loggias linking wings;
central chapel deeper at rear. Gothic Revival style.
2 storeys with 1st-floor rooms partly in roof space;
1:3:1:3:1-bays. Chapel front gable end has large Decorated
style 3-light traceried window with hood-mould over
3 trefoiled niches with squat shafts. Each cross wing gable
has shallow 2-centred arches over 3-light sash to 1st floor
and 3 sashes to ground floor. Very shallow arches to dormers
with paired sashes. Each loggia is 5 bays of pointed arches on
round piers with carved capitals; moulded entablature to
loggia balustrade. Within each loggia are paired sashes
flanking central 3-light sash. INTERIOR not inspected.
(Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 107).



Listing NGR: SW8071132455

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