Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032NE THE MOOR
843-1/7/204 Former Town Hall and attached former
23/01/73 Fire Station
(Formerly Listed as:
THE MOOR
Town Hall)

GV II

Town hall, later magistrates' court, and attached former fire
station. 1864 by Reeves and Butcher at a cost of £4,000 to
replace the one in the High Street (qv); in 1895 a fire
station was added on the left. Stucco on masonry with slate
roofs.
PLAN: double-depth Town Hall originally had County Court
office, registrar's office, high bailiff's office, judges'
apartments and a large hall for magistrates' business. Fire
station set back to left. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: Town Hall has channelled rustication and keyed
segmental arches to ground floor; mid-floor entablature with
guttae to architrave; quoin strips to 1st floor, recessed
architraves (3 keyed ogee arches flanked by segmental arches)
to 1st floor; parapet cornices to side bays; taller central
bays broken forward with squat attic over sill band and
grouped consoles to moulded eaves cornice; dry slate roofs,
hipped over central bays; tall stuccoed stacks with modillions
to moulded cornices: flanking central roof, at left-hand end
and at rear right. Fire station has quoin strips, moulded
1st-floor string and segmental-arched windows, in recessed
architraves to 1st floor; slate roof with projecting eaves.
2 storeys plus attic to central bays; symmetrical 1:3:1-bays
except for extra quadrant entrance bay (to make central
feature when seen approached down Killigrew Street) and
doorway (instead of window) to left of central bays. Original
doors and windows: horned sashes with margin panes; blind
window over corner doorway; overlights with large panes and
pairs of panelled doors. The curved corner doorway is the
principal feature of the Town Hall with moulded architrave,
dropped key, flanking Tuscan half-columns and dentilled
cornice surmounted by the Royal Coat of Arms advertising the
function of the building. 4-window-range right-hand return has
similar details. Fire station is 4:1 bays; horned sashes plus
2 later horned sashes to altered ground floor on the right.
INTERIOR of town hall retains some features of a C19 courtroom
and a fine quality cantilevered stone staircase.
(Kelly: Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall: 1883-:
886; Cunningham, Colin: Victorian and Edwardian Architecture:
1981-: 265 AND 271).

Listing NGR: SW8066632924

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560060

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)