Port Eliot House
PORT ELIOT HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1140516
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Port Eliot House
- Statutory Address:
- PORT ELIOT HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1140516
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Port Eliot House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORT ELIOT 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:
- PORT ELIOT HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Germans
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 35960 57793
Details
ST GERMANS ST GERMANS SX 35 NE 7/119 (17/67) Port Eliot House 21.2.51 GV I
Country house in a landscaped park. Contains a medieval core from the Priory of St Germans; the early C18 building, largely rebuilt and refaced by John Soane 1804-6, and with a service wing of 1829 by H. Harrison. Later C19 alterations. Rubble with stone dressings. Slate roofs behind embattled parapets. Plan: Entrance front to west, with the 2 parallel service wings of 1829 projecting to front left, enclosing a small service courtyard, with a carriageway at the front. The main house by Soane has rooms arranged in 2 ranges, with the saloon and drawing room facing north (at the left side) with the circular drawing room by Soane to rear left; stair hall between the entry hall and the saloon to left. Other rooms facing the south, include the billiard room and dining room. Gothic style. Exterior: The entrance front is of 2 storeys on plinth and 6 bays, with embattled parapet over coved cornice. All windows paired 8-pane sashes with hood mould, first floor string course. First floor 2 central windows have Gothic glazing bars. Central porte-cochere is of 1829 by Harrison and has 4-centred arch and hood mould, inner panelled double doors with moulded architrave. 4 bays to left in greenstone coursed square rubble, 2 bays to right in sandstone. Service wing projects to left, 2 storeys and 5 bays with buttresses and embattled parapet, paired sashes with hood moulds. Right side has polygonal tower to each end with pointed arched 12-pane sashes. 1:3:5:3:1 bays, with central 5 bays broken forward. All windows sashes, with cambered brick heads at ground floor, 4-centred arches at first floor. Central French windows and French window to left. Centre bays have modillion cornice. 3 bays to right retain 12-pane sashes at ground and first floors. Low screen wall attached to left, with pair of square plinths and wrought iron gates across, urns over piers. 5 granite steps leading to the entrance front, with splayed wrought iron railings to each side. Left side has bow to left of the circular drawing room. Rendered central range of 4:3:2 bays with central bay broken forward and embattled parapet. Bow has blind 9- pane sash at basement level, 12-pane sash at ground floor and 9-pane sash at first floor. The central 3 bays of the centre range are in rusticated granite ashlar of the C18 at basement, with central round-arched doorway with console keystone, round- arched 6-pane sash to right and left with splayed glazing bars and cornice over. All windows sashes of varied sizes. Service wing projecting to right, in 1:3:2 bays, with sashes at basement, ground and first floors. Rear is in 3:1:2 bays; central canted bay through 2 storeys, with 15-pane sash at ground floor with Gothic glazing bars, first floor 9-pane sash. Sashes in bays to right and left with brick surrounds. To right, the bow of the circular ballroom with sashes at basement, ground and first floor. Interior: All features of interior remain as described in sources. The park was landscaped by Repton, Red Book dated 1793. Sources: Hussey, C.: Country Life, October 15, 22 and 29, 1948.
Listing NGR: SX3596357791
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in October 15, (1948)
Country Life in October 22, (1948)
Country Life in October 29, (1948)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,
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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