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26, Church Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Falmouth, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.1536 / 50°9'12"N

Longitude: -5.0682 / 5°4'5"W

OS Eastings: 180918

OS Northings: 32676

OS Grid: SW809326

Mapcode National: GBR ZD.THVN

Mapcode Global: FRA 088M.3BK

Plus Code: 9C2P5W3J+CP

Entry Name: 26, Church Street

Listing Date: 24 April 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1270108

English Heritage Legacy ID: 460103

ID on this website: 101270108

Location: Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Falmouth

Built-Up Area: Falmouth

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Falmouth King Charles the Martyr

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description



FALMOUTH

SW8032NE CHURCH STREET
843-1/7/56 (West side)
No.26

GV II

Former general post office, now a shop. C18 core; extended,
refronted and remodelled 1867 at a cost of »1,300, paid for by
20 local businessmen. Stucco on masonry with asbestos slate
roof. Deep plan. Classical style.
3 storeys; symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front with flanking windows
to 1st floor only, over low ope (passage) doorways. Rusticated
quoins, moulded architraves, 2nd-floor sills on brackets to
moulded string and heavy moulded parapet cornice linked to
triangular pediment over centre bays broken forward; granite
plinth. Original horned sashes. Ground-floor centre has 3
round arches (windows flanking lower central doorway) within
Tuscan colonnade with consoles as keyblocks to windows under
moulded entablature. Possibly original glazed door at far
left, the other door C20. INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY: following a period of inadequate accommodation and
inefficiency local businessmen each bought between one and 5
shares to a total of 40, each worth »50. The resulting
purpose-built premises made it easier to handle the
newly-introduced (1869) electric telegraph as the Falmouth
office dealt with overseas calls. This was Falmouth's post
office until the present one was built on The Moor in 1929.
(Gilson P: Falmouth in Old Photographs: Falmouth: 1990-: 53;
Kelly: Kelly's Directory for Cornwall: London: 1910-: 105).


Listing NGR: SW8091832676

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