Description

FALMOUTH

SW73SE ASHFIELD, Ponsharden
843-1/1/239 The Cottage

II

House, said to have been a dower house, Probably C18, extended
mid C19 and C20. Render on probable rubble and cob and
wheat-reed roof to original part; painted killas rubble with
granite dressings and hipped dry Delabole slate roof with
projecting eaves to 1st extension; brick stack on the right.
Originally a 2-room plan house, then extended with a wing at
right angles to rear right and a double-depth wing on the
right, projecting at the front, finally in the C20 extended
further at rear.
2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front to original house plus
one-window range of front end of wing on the right. Original
part has early/mid C19 Gothic style 3-light casement windows
with latticed panes to central lights and horizontal panes to
the side lights; arched heads to 1st-floor windows with
intersecting glazing bars; some original panes of crown glass;
4-panel door. Wing has central late C19 or early C20 horned
sash with margin panes in original opening over canted
pilastered bay window of the same date. Right-hand return has
2 original mid-C19 12-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor and a
central segmental-arched window with margin panes. Rear has
some C20 copies of the Gothic-style windows.
INTERIOR: simple interior. Central staircase in original part
with an oval open well, stick balusters and turned newels, the
bottom newel with the letter S, probably for Stephens, the
name of the family who lived here and had a rope works at
Ponsharden; original pegged trusses and thatching battens.
This is the only building left in Falmouth with a thatched
roof.

Listing NGR: SW7938133660

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560190

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (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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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)