Charlestown / Charlestone House

Date:
22 Aug 2002
Location:
Charlestown, Market Street, Maker With Rame, Caradon, Cornwall, PL10 1NE
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Charlestone House, Market Street, Maker With Rame, Caradon, Cornwall, PL10 1NE
Reference:
IOE01/07555/25
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME MARKET STREET (west side), Kingsand

9/176 Charlestone House (formerly 23.1.68 listed as Charlestown) GV II

House. Circa 1750 with C19 and C20 alterations and rear additions. Sandstone rubble, ground floor rendered and lined out, first and 2nd floors slate-hung and painted. Slate roof with gable end stack to right and gable end stack to rear wing.

Single depth plan with central entrance passage and room to right and left, stair to rear of room to right, integral 2-storey one-room plan rear service wing to right and single storey C20 addition at rear to left.

Symmetrical front of 3 storeys and 5 windows, all 4-pane sashes, 4 at ground floor with central 6-panelled fielded door set in recess with pilasters and cornice; 3 windows at 2nd floor. Slate-hanging swept out over ground floor as string course.

Right side rendered, rear wing in painted rubble; the side wall of the main range has a curved wall, not an oven.

Interior Internal porch, with panelled walls and half-glazed inner door. Room to front left has 6-panelled and fielded door, room has complete fielded panelling and dado rail, C19 chimneypiece to end wall with panelling above, cupboard to right and left with shaped shelves and panelled lower doors; moulded cornice. Entrance passage has moulded cornice. Room to right has 6-panelled door, other features altered C20. Dog-leg stair with vertical panelling. At first floor, all partition walls have vertical panelling, room to front left has 2-panelled door. Small room to front centre, with vertical panelling. Room to front right has 2-panelled door.

Vertical panelling at 2nd floor, room to left and centre have 2-panelled doors.

Front room to left has chimneypiece with eared architrave, swept torus moulding and moulded mantel. Rear 'wing has straight stair with stick balusters along outer side wall, at ground floor panelled cupboards with H hinges.

Listing NGR: SX4345350510

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2263 IOE Records taken by Nelson Worcester; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Nelson Worcester. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Worcester, Nelson

Rights Holder: Worcester, Nelson

Keywords

Render, Rubble, Sandstone, Slate, Stuart House, Georgian Monument (By Form), Domestic, Dwelling