Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE CHURCH STREET
843-1/7/56 (West side)
No.26

GV II

Former general post office, now a shop. C18 core; extended,
refronted and remodelled 1867 at a cost of »1,300, paid for by
20 local businessmen. Stucco on masonry with asbestos slate
roof. Deep plan. Classical style.
3 storeys; symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front with flanking windows
to 1st floor only, over low ope (passage) doorways. Rusticated
quoins, moulded architraves, 2nd-floor sills on brackets to
moulded string and heavy moulded parapet cornice linked to
triangular pediment over centre bays broken forward; granite
plinth. Original horned sashes. Ground-floor centre has 3
round arches (windows flanking lower central doorway) within
Tuscan colonnade with consoles as keyblocks to windows under
moulded entablature. Possibly original glazed door at far
left, the other door C20. INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY: following a period of inadequate accommodation and
inefficiency local businessmen each bought between one and 5
shares to a total of 40, each worth »50. The resulting
purpose-built premises made it easier to handle the
newly-introduced (1869) electric telegraph as the Falmouth
office dealt with overseas calls. This was Falmouth's post
office until the present one was built on The Moor in 1929.
(Gilson P: Falmouth in Old Photographs: Falmouth: 1990-: 53;
Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 105).

Listing NGR: SW8091832676

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560174

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