SERVICE BUILDINGS ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST OF CAERHAYS CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1144759
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: SERVICE BUILDINGS ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST OF CAERHAYS CASTLE
Statutory Address:: SERVICE BUILDINGS ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST OF CAERHAYS CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1144759
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: SERVICE BUILDINGS ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST OF CAERHAYS CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: SERVICE BUILDINGS ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST OF CAERHAYS CASTLE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SERVICE BUILDINGS ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST OF CAERHAYS CASTLE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Michael Caerhays
National Grid Reference:: SW 97074 41590

Details

ST MICHAEL CAERHAYS SW 94 SE 3/132 Service buildings attached to south - west of Caerhays Castle

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Service buildings, including stables and coach houses, dairies and offices and servants' hall; attached to south west of Caerhays Castle. 1808, by John Nash, for J.B. Trevanion. Stone rubble with stone dressings. Slate roofs with lead rolls to ridges. Plan: The serivce buildings are attached to the main house, and are arranged around two courtyards. The inner courtyard is smaller, with the servants' hall to north. There is a range of dairies and offices running from north west to south east, with a gateway through the centre set in a 2-storey block with bellcote. Around the larger outer courtyard there are stables and coach houses in the north and south ranges. To south west, the large courtyard is enclosed by a wall with gateway, and there is a further range to south west, containing offices and accommodation. Exterior: The entrance gateway to the large courtyard has a round arch with embattled parapet; to right is the courtyard wall and to left is the 2-storey block with hipped slate roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge. The outer side of this block has 2- light casements with segmental arches at first floor and a single light casement at ground and first floor to left. There is a circular plan tower attached to left with finial at the apex of the conical roof and a lancet at mid level. This is attached to the gateway to left in the garden wall (q.v.). By the main gateway on the inner side of the courtyard there is a small dog-kennel attached to the wall. Inside the large courtyard there is a single storey range of stables along the north side with double and single plank doors with segmental arches; slate roofs with ridge tiles and gable ends. There is a glass roof on cast iron posts covering the entrances to the stables. The southern range of coach houses has a hipped slate roof with lead rolls; there are two wide plank double doors and a single half-glazed door to end right. The central range dividing the two courtyards is 2-storey, with a taller gabled 2- storey centrepiece; at first floor this has a clock and two 3-centred arched lattice- glazed lancets; on the roof a lead ogee bellcote on wooden posts with bell. To right and left at first floor there are three 2-light casements with triangular heads; embattled parapet. There is a central rounded-arched gateway with stone dressed arch. Attached to left is a small single storey block with hipped slate roof and two similar 2-light casements to front and plank stable-type door with triangular overlight at the right side. To end left there is a large gateway with segmental arch, and to end right there are two lancets and a plank door with segmental arch at ground floor. This range forms a nearly symmetrical front. In the small inner courtyard, the rear of the central range has central segmental stone rubble arch with clock over; blind gable above. To right there is a plank door, with 2-light casement at first floor floor. To left, there are two doors, one with sidelights, a 2-light 6-pane casement and a window with shutters; at first floor a 2-light 6-pane casement; all with segmental arches. To south there is a short single storey range attaching the service buildings to the main house; this has a plank door and a 4-light casement. To north there is the servants' hall; on the inner side of the courtyard this has three 2-light casements at ground floor and two 2-light casements at first floor, with a C20 porch set in the angle to the main house. On the outer side the servants' hall forms an ornamental feature of the entrance front; it has buttresses and embattled parapet and a large 3-light mullion and transom window with 4-centred arch and hood mould, with lattice glazing and tracery. To right is the outer side of the stable range, with 4-panelled door with overlight. Interiors: Not accessible. Sources: Pevsner, N.: Buidings of England: Cornwall 1970. Summerson, J.: The Life and Work of John Nash, Architect. 1980.

Listing NGR: SW9707441590

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Legacy System number:: 71630
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970)
Summerson, J, The Life and Work of John Nash, (1980)
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.