Trewidden House
TREWIDDEN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136911
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Trewidden House
- Statutory Address:
- TREWIDDEN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136911
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Trewidden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREWIDDEN HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TREWIDDEN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Madron
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 44456 29520
Details
MADRON SW 42 NW 9/124 Trewidden House - GV II Country house. Circa 1840's. Pebble dash over stucco. Scantle slate gabled roofs with projecting eaves and verges. Axial, gable and lateral stuccoed stacks, some with octagonal shafts. Plan: large irregular double depth overall U-shaped plan. Cross passage towards right with principal reception room left of passage and stair hall behind and 3 principal reception rooms (2 behind front wing) with a garden front, right. Tudor Gothic style. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical gabled elevations with hoodmoulds over the original openings. Overall 9 window south entrance front 2:1:2:1:1 bays. Entrance porch in front of steep projecting bay in the angle with a gabled-ended wing, far right. Circa late C19 porch has 4-centred arched doorway with 2-light mullion over and octagonal corner turrets. 2 window bay addition left of porch. C19 or early C20 casements to most windows, some with leaded lights. Interior: many good quality C19 features: original open well stair with octagonal newels and turned balusters. 4 reception rooms inspected, each with panelling, ceiling cornices and other detail in circa early C18 style. Rear right-hand room is panelled in tulip wood, and the room in front of it has multiple breaks in the architraves of the panels. The porch is panelled in bleached oak. Trewidden is a complex and unusual house. There is an overall architectural unity but the plan and elevations are deliberately irregular so as to resemble a house that has evolved over a period of time.
Listing NGR: SW4445629520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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