Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE BELL'S COURT
843-1/7/34 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
22/07/49

GV II

Two attached houses, later 4 houses, now a club and a museum.
C17, remodelled early C18, house on right (Nos 1 & 2) mostly
rebuilt c1980. Rubble walls; steep roofs: asbestos slate to
Nos 3 & 4; dry slate to No.2. Single-depth plan plus
extensions behind No.3.
2 storeys; overall 8-window range. Nos 3 & 4 are a 5-window
range with early C18 hornless sashes with thick glazing bars
(except early C19 sash on right) flanking original 2-storey
deep-plan steep pedimented gabled porch, slate-hung to 1st
floor with central pair of late C18 or early C19 12-pane
hornless sashes and open below carried on 4 granite Tuscan
columns with entablature above the capitals. Doorway within
porch on the left with C18 panelled door;
2 windows on either side of the doorway (the one right of
doorway within the porch) and further doorway at far right
with old 6-panel door; early to mid C19 12-pane hornless
sashes on the left and possibly later 8-pane sashes on the
right. No.2 is a C20-replica symmetrical 3-window front with
ground-floor windows closer to gabled 2-storey porch on
4 incorrectly copied granite columns; C20 copy sashes and C20
door. No.1 is a single-storey rendered wing projecting forward
at far right, also with C20 sashes.
INTERIOR: has some C18 fielded panelling in the right-hand
room and a moulded ceiling cornice; window shutters to
ground-floor rooms; Straight-flight staircase probably also
C18.
HISTORY: Captain George Bell resided here 1764 (date plaque).
See also Nos 1 and 2 Stratton Place (qv).

Listing NGR: SW8077732895

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560195

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