Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032SE TRELAWNEY ROAD
843-1/10/214 Earle's Retreat
23/01/73

GV II

Almshouses. 1869 by Alexander Lauder for George Earle to
accommodate 32 persons. Squared rubble with polychrome
dressings; dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gables to
3 cross wings and 6 dormered windows.
PLAN: E-shaped at the front with loggias linking wings;
central chapel deeper at rear. Gothic Revival style.
2 storeys with 1st-floor rooms partly in roof space;
1:3:1:3:1-bays. Chapel front gable end has large Decorated
style 3-light traceried window with hood-mould over
3 trefoiled niches with squat shafts. Each cross wing gable
has shallow 2-centred arches over 3-light sash to 1st floor
and 3 sashes to ground floor. Very shallow arches to dormers
with paired sashes. Each loggia is 5 bays of pointed arches on
round piers with carved capitals; moulded entablature to
loggia balustrade. Within each loggia are paired sashes
flanking central 3-light sash. INTERIOR not inspected.
(Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 107).

Listing NGR: SW8071132455

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560026

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)