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Latitude: 50.154 / 50°9'14"N
Longitude: -5.0743 / 5°4'27"W
OS Eastings: 180486
OS Northings: 32740
OS Grid: SW804327
Mapcode National: GBR ZD.TG7V
Mapcode Global: FRA 088M.0Z3
Plus Code: 9C2P5W3G+H7
Entry Name: Former Drill Hall
Listing Date: 24 April 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270092
English Heritage Legacy ID: 460087
Also known as: Drill Hall
ID on this website: 101270092
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 King Charles the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Cinema Drill hall
FALMOUTH
SW8032NW BERKELEY VALE
843-1/6/38 (South side)
Former Drill Hall
GV II
Drill hall, now an indoor market. 1874. Built to hold 1,000
persons. Killas rubble with granite dressings; dry Delabole
slate roof gable end on to the street, plus 3 linked hipped
roofs over wings on the right; front gable coped. Deep hall
plan plus porch and changing rooms on the right. Gothic style
with some classical style features.
Symmetrical 3-bay front: 2-centred arch to large traceried
rose window over pair of ordered round-arched doorways with
carved capitals and imposts to clustered shafts; name panel
above; flanking bays have 2-light transomed round-arched
windows under hood-moulds all framed within pilasters with
carved and moulded imposts to segmental arches; the mullions
are slender shafts with carved capitals; behind these are
hornless sash windows with glazing bars and fanlight heads.
Rear has central rose window with latticed glazing.
INTERIOR: wide-span tie-rod roof trusses; gallery at front
end.
(Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 105).
Listing NGR: SW8048632740
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