Description

FALMOUTH

SW8033SE DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE
843-1/5/84 No.10
and attached steps and forecourt
walls and rear boundary wall on
right

GV II

Probable sea captain's house. Late C18 or early C19, front
remodelled c1910 for Dr. Banks. Granite ashlar with mid-floor
strings; flat arches with projecting keyblocks to original
2nd-floor openings and moulded cornice to parapet; asbestos
slate roof with gabled dormer on the right and brick end
stacks. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys plus attic over basement;
symmetrical 3-window front. Late C19 horned sashes with
glazing bars except for c1910 central 1st-floor 4-light
transomed bowed window with moulded cornice to half-conical
lead roof over larger-plan bowed transomed glazed porch with
pair of glazed and panelled doors and moulded entablature.
Flanking 2-storey-over-basement canted bay windows with
moulded entablature, plus modillions to 1st floor. Basement
windows have keyed round arches.
INTERIOR: right-hand front room has marble chimney-piece with
corner blocks and roundels and cast-iron grate surround with
cabled decoration, and moulded and carved plaster ceiling
cornice. Entrance and stair hall have moulded and carved
plaster ceiling cornices and bands with egg and dart
enrichment; arch between entrance hall and stair hall and an
impressive open-well staircase rising through 3 floors with
open string, turned balusters and pendants, all probably 1910.
Some panelled doors and moulded architraves
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wide flight of granite steps to square
slender granite gate piers with moulded cornices to pyramidal
caps; low flanking walls surmounted by ornate cast-iron
railings salvaged from another property. Rear garden wall, the
boundary between Nos 10 and 12 (qv), is a high killas rubble
wall with a scantle slate coping and red clay ridge tiles.
This house is part of a group of C18 and early C19 houses
prominent in views of Falmouth from across the Penryn River
and from Carrick Roads.

Listing NGR: SW8051033334

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560124

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)