Falmouth School of Art; Rosehill England, UK

Listed Building Description

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FALMOUTH

SW8032SE WOODLANE 843-1/10/237 (South side) 23/01/73 Rosehill (Falmouth School of Art)

GV II

Small country (later suburban) house, now the library of a college. c1820 for Robert Were Fox. Stucco; asbestos slate hipped roofs; 3 rendered stacks over road frontage; bracketed eaves to entrance front. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 1:2:2-bay entrance front. Rusticated quoins. Flat arches with keyblocks over original hornless sashes with glazing bars. Pilastered bowed tripartite sash on slender Tuscan columns as porch to doorway with original panelled door and cobweb fanlight on the left, otherwise shallow latticed wrought-iron balconies to 1st-floor windows; 2 projecting bays on the right with round-arched window, with spoked fanlight head, above 6-pane overlight and 6-panel door. Left-hand return is 2-window range, also with iron balconies. Right-hand return (road frontage) is incised stucco with 2 storeys of blind windows flanking narrow stair window. INTERIOR: retains most of its fine quality original features including: doorways with moulded architraves and corner blocks, 6-panel mahogany doors with inner beads and moulded and carved plaster ceiling cornices and bands, also some central roses. Stair hall has an open-well staircase with mahogany handrail over a cast-iron balustrade; panelled dado and guilloche cornices below the landing and modillions with roses to the ceiling cornice soffit above. Front left-hand room space has a moulded band with a beaded cornice. The room space behind has a Greek key band and a beaded cornice. Right-hand room has acanthus detail. Other rooms not inspected but likely to contain more features of interest.

Listing NGR: SW8071132196