Description

FALMOUTH

SW8132NW ARWENACK STREET
843-1/8/25 (North East side)
23/01/73 Custom House and rear courtyard
walls
(Formerly Listed as:
ARWENACK STREET
(North East side)
Custom House)

GV II*

Custom house. 1814. Stucco on rubble; dry slate roof;
balustraded look-out platform; rear lateral brick stack.
Rectangular plan. Greek Revival style. Single-storey front
with hexastyle Doric portico with plain frieze with central
Royal Arms and triangular pediment above parapet cornice.
Original round-arched doorway with spoked fanlight, centrally
placed within portico; and 12-pane hornless sash on left with
pair of panelled shutters; iron railings behind columns. Right
of portico is a granite niche to the RNLI; farther to the
right is a C20 12-pane horned sash. Rear is single storey over
basement, 7-window range with original 12-pane sashes except
for C20 copy on the left; mid-floor string. Basement has
segmental-arched openings with original 20-pane sashes and
shutters except for opening towards right with ledged door and
9-pane fixed light. On the left is a small rubble-walled
courtyard.
INTERIOR not accessible but likely to be of interest.
HISTORY: There has been a custom house in Falmouth since 1650.
From the late C18 the Custom House was moved to what is now
No.2 Bank Place (qv) to be near the Killigrew quays and
finally due to increasing trade this purpose-built custom
house was erected in 1814. A fine building, this style being
chosen for other buildings of this type such as the Custom
House by Foulston at Devonport.
(Gilson P: Falmouth in Old Photographs: Falmouth: 1990-: 58).

Listing NGR: SW8109532527

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533832

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)