Description

FALMOUTH

SW8033SW STRATTON PLACE
843-1/4/188 Nos.1 AND 2
23/01/73 and attached front garden walls and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
STRATTON PLACE
Nos.1 AND 2)

GV II

Pair of houses. c1793. For Francis Basset, Lord De
Dunstanville, and No.2 (right) let to Captain Couse 1793-1799.
Granite ashlar basement, otherwise brick fronted (No.1
painted); dry slate roof to No.1, asbestos slate to
No.2; brick end stacks and 4 C20 roof dormers. Double-depth
plan. 2 storeys plus later attics over basement; each house
with symmetrical 5-window front. Painted quoins, mid-floor
string; rosettes and triglyphs to eaves cornice. Keyblocks to
flat brick arches over late C19 or C20 2-pane horned sashes.
Each house has original round-arched central doorway with open
pediment and Roman Doric fluted half-columns and spoked
fanlights over 6-panel doors.
INTERIOR of No.2 has good quality original and early C19
features: heavy moulded cornice to left-hand room; eared
chimney-piece to right-hand room; open-well open-string
staircase with stick balusters; some moulded cornices with
bands, window shutters and panelled doors. No.1 not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubble and brick front garden walls, with
renewed plain railings to front, and mid C19 wrought-iron
gates with fleur-de-lis finials.
HISTORY: Captain Charles Couse had married a local girl,
Catherine Bell, the daughter of the Packet Agent George Bell
(Bell's Court, qv). Subsequently he was appointed Captain of
the Packet Ship Walsingham and later the Roebuck. He was later
dismissed from the Packet Service and had to leave this house.
(1993-).

Listing NGR: SW8047133482

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560044

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair