Earle's Retreat England, UK
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.
Listed Building Description
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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