THE OLD MANOR HOUSE OR CHY-AN-EGLOS AND STABLES AT REAR

THE OLD MANOR HOUSE OR CHY-AN-EGLOS AND STABLES AT REAR, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1159421
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE OR CHY-AN-EGLOS AND STABLES AT REAR
Statutory Address:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE OR CHY-AN-EGLOS AND STABLES AT REAR, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1159421
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE OR CHY-AN-EGLOS AND STABLES AT REAR
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE OR CHY-AN-EGLOS AND STABLES AT REAR, FORE STREET

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:: THE OLD MANOR HOUSE OR CHY-AN-EGLOS AND STABLES AT REAR, FORE STREET

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Marazion
National Grid Reference:: SW 51990 30600

Details

MARAZION FORE STREET, Marazion SW 5130

4/5 The Old Manor House or Chy-an-Eglos and stables at rear

GV II*

Town house. Circa 1775. Built for William Cornish a former mayor of Marazion, extended at rear and to the east in the circa mid C19. Granite ashlar front with granite dressings, stucco extensions. Scantle slate roofs with gable ends to original part, hipped-ended rear wings and polygonal ended front wing right. Brick chimneys over the original gable ends and far right. Plan: probably single depth originally with principal rooms to the first floor (piano nobile); kitchen at ground floor/basement left of central entrance hall and small parlour right, (probably with shallow pantry behind originally); large parlour to first floor left, including the space over the entrance hall, and smaller parlour, right. The original stair was probably an open-well type at the rear of the present entrance hall. The present stair is circa mid-C19. Projecting farther to rear on either side are similar wings with brick vaulted basement cellars for wine and food storage; another vaulted cellar on the left of the kitchen with conservatory over. On the right hand side of the house is a 3-storey C19 wing projecting with a canted end at the front. Exterior : 3-storeys, or 2 storeys over basement. Symmetrical 3 window original front plus circa mid-C19 3 window canted bay to right and conservatory over cellar left. The original front has rusticated quoins and modillioned cornice to a parapet. Central doorway with sidelights flanked by square 2-light windows with central mullions carrying flat arches; the first floor windows are tripartite Venetian with arched central lights and the second floor windows are narrow openings with single sashes. All the windows at the front are C20 horned sashes. The canted projection, right, has mid floor stuccoed strings and stuccoed modillioned cornice. The original cornice is also stuccoed. Rear is stuccoed with moulded eaves cornices; 6-pane horned sashes and pedimented doorcase to rear entrance porch. Interior : ground floor : C18 parlour cornice with triglyphs; C18 kitchen dresser top with trefoil heads and dentils to cornice; C19 open-string stair with scrolled mahogany handrail over newel and slender column-turned balusters and other C18 and C19 features including cellar vaults carried on iron girders. First floor: fine original Rococo plasterwork ceilings and original wall panelling and chimney pieces. The large parlour has a modillioned cornice and the small parlour has florets within a cavetto moulding; also original doorcases with chest-shaped overdoors and original 6-panel doors. The C19 stables are at the rear of the right hand wing, built into the bank at the rear with doorways at the front; unaltered condition with cobbled yard in front. For a period during the C19 this house was the home of Piers St Aubyn, Architect. It is interesting to compare the more individual design of this house to Acton Castle, qv., Perranuthnoe parish, The Manor Office, qv., West End, Marazion and Tregenna Castle, St Ives, all of about the same date, the last three sharing many smilarities and possibly by the same architect (Tregenna Castle is by Wood, the younger).

Listing NGR: SW5199030600

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Legacy System number:: 69909
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.