Trenoweth House

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SW 63 SW CROWAN CROWAN

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GV II

Vicarage, now private house. Datestone 1888. Granite rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, doorways, mullioned windows and gable copings. Steep roofs on 3 levels with some gabled dormers and most gables coped; dry Delabole slate to garden front, otherwise grouted scantle slate; large stone stacks, some lateral, some over gable ends, 2 external; crested clay ridge tiles. Cast iron ogee gutters, rainwater heads and down pipes. Plan: deliberately irregular plan overall L-shaped. Principal axis north-south with taller double depth main part at the south end under parallel roofs; east facing entrance front and west garden front. Continuing to the right (north) of the entrance front is a lower single depth presumably service wing also with an entrance and returning at right angles to the front, right, with a still lower wing. Principal stair is on the right of the main entrance. Reception room or study left of the main entrance with window facing south, small room right of the stair. Behind, within the parallel garden front range, 2 reception rooms both with large west windows but the left hand (south) room also with canted bay window in the south wall. Tudor inspired style. 2 storeys plus attics. Irregular east entrance front: tall principal part left with roughly central 4-centred arched doorway with original door; gable of attic rising to full ridge height at the left hand side. Lower service wing, right, with shallower 4-centred arched doorway near the angle with a short lower gable-ended wing projecting at front right, each part with central roof dormer, in scale with their respective fronts, and a ground floor window; 2 light windows, but the ground floor window of the lower wing now a doorway. The windows of the main part are irregularly dispersed: the mid floor stair window, right of the doorway and the first floor window central to the gable, left, each have 2 arch-headed lights with recessed spandrels and square hoodmoulds; square-headed 2-light window at ground floor right, otherwise single light windows with arched heads: left of doorway, over, and middle of gable, left; also a small round oculus under the eaves, right. A weathered buttress projects left. West garden front has fairly regular 2 window service range left, set back, and nearly symmetrical 3 window principal garden front, right. The main part has central date plaque between the 2 ground floor windows, 2-light window over and single light window to the central roof gable. All windows with arched lights and, except for attic window, moulded; ground floor windows and central first floor windows with aquarez hoodmoulds, 4-light window left and 3-light window right; 3-light windows to first floor left and right are wider spaced. A weathered buttress projects from the right hand side to the front. The 2-bay service range front, left, has 4-light window, left, and 3-light window, over, rising partly into a tall gable; simple right hand bay with central single light window and similar window over. The 2-bay south wall has the tall gable end of the garden front left and integral side wall of the entrance front gable, right. The left hand bay has central window to ground floor, first floor and attic, canted 4-light bay, 2-light and single light respectively; the right hand bay has 3-light ground floor window only. All with arch-headed lights, the 2 and 3-light windows with square hoodmoulds. All the windows of the house have their original casements with glazing bars. The coped gables are carried on moulded kneelers. Interior not inspected, but if as unaltered as the exterior, likely to have some good quality details. A vicarage on a grandiose scale, deliberately asymmetrical in plan and elevations, the varying quality of the architectural detail expressing the function of the rooms within. The same date as The Old School qv, Crowan and probably by the same architect.

Listing NGR: SW6422234503

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