Description

FALMOUTH

SW8033NW STRATTON TERRACE
843-1/3/194 No.12
The Vicarage

GV II

Suburban villa, later and still a vicarage. Early C19, road
front remodelled late C19. Stucco on rubble with plinth and
moulded 1st-floor string; dry slate roof with projecting
eaves; 4 stuccoed stacks, including one axial stack, one to
rear left and 2 on the right. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window entrance front. Late C19
4-pane horned sashes in original openings. Central pilastered
doorcase with moulded entablature; original 6-panel door with
original door furniture. 2-window garden/road front has paired
sash with chamfered architraves over square-cornered 2-light
bay window with narrow sidelight returns, on the left, and
2-storey canted bay on the right, all the bay windows with
pilaster mullions.
INTERIOR retains most of its high quality early C19 Greek
Revival features including moulded and carved ceiling
cornices; elaborate ceiling roses to entrance hall and
garden/road front reception rooms; 6-panel mahogany doors with
original furniture; moulded architraves with corner blocks and
roundels; panelled window shutters; elliptical arches on
consoles between vestibule and inner hall and between inner
hall and stair hall, another to rear of inner reception room;
cantilevered stone open-well staircase with mahogany handrail
on cast-iron balusters with anthemion decoration and a moulded
marble chimney-piece with corner blocks and roundels to the
room left of the entrance. The plaster decoration includes
guilloche band to stair hall, Greek key and egg and dart to
entrance halls.
This house is part of a fine group of suburban villas
prominent in views of Falmouth from across the Penryn River
and from the Carrick Roads.

Listing NGR: SW8035033658

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560050

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