Mount Edgcumbe House
MOUNT EDGCUMBE HOUSE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160959
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Edgcumbe House
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT EDGCUMBE HOUSE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2003-05-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/10059/10
- Rights:
- © Anne Newell. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160959
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Edgcumbe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT EDGCUMBE 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:
- MOUNT EDGCUMBE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maker-with-Rame
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 45307 52752
Details
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/178 Mount Edgcumbe House
21.7.51 GV II
Country house. Original house dated from mid C16 with C19 alterations; gutted, outer walls only remaining, and rebuilt 1958, dated to rear. Random sandstone rubble on rendered and lined out plinth, granite dressings, some doorways and windows re-used, other copies. Plain tiled roof. Square plan with octagonal tower to each corner. 2 storey front, with central 2-storey porch and 3-storey octagonal tower to each end. Entrance porch has 2-centred arched roll-moulded doorway, with roundels in spandrels, 2-light overlight with moulded corbel over, pilasters to sides, frieze with segmental broken pediment with shield and cornucopiae in tympanum. Granite mullioned window over, 4-light with king mullion, wave-moulded with ogee-headed lights and carved spandrels; this window appears to be original. The other windows are of similar design, but of 2 lights; some in the other elevations are facsimiles. 3 bays to each side of porch, 2 inner bays have 2-light window at ground and first floor, outer bay has 4-light window at ground and first floor. Cill band, cornice and embattled parapet carried round all centre bays including porch. Towers to ends have 2-light window each side at each floor, with band courses, modillion cornice and embattled parapet. Left side has central 2-storey canted bay, with 4-centred arched doorway with overlight, 2 single lights right and left, two 2-light windows and single light to each side at first floor, embattled parapet. Bay to right and left, each with 3- light window at ground and first floor. Octagonal rubble stack to inner side of tower to right, windows as to front; stair turret to inner side of tower to left, with lancets, cornice and embattled parapet. Right side has 5 central bays, at first floor with windows of 2,3,4,3 and 2 lights, ground floor has 4-centred arched roll-moulded doorway (re-used) with quatrefoils in spandrels, 3,4,3 and 2-light windows to right. Flight of 8 steps to door, 6 multi- pane basement windows. Tower to left has 2-light window at ground floor, tower to right has 2-light window at first floor. Rear has central 2-storey canted bay, with 4-light window to front and single lights to sides. 2 bays to right, with 4-light windows at ground floor and 3-light windows at first floor; 3 bays to left have two 3-light and one 2-light window at first floor, at ground floor 3-light window to left and 2-light window to right, with central 4-centred arched doorway with surround of 3 chamfered orders. Cill string, cornice and embattled parapet. Tower to left has 2-light window, tower to right has 2-light window. Interior Not inspected. (Sources for all items in Mount Edgcumbe Country Park: Manpower Services Commission Survey of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cornwall County Council 1983/84. Radcliffe, E.: Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970. Country Life if 238, xi 317, cxvi 794, cxxviii 1550, cxxviii 1550 and 1958. Rawlings, K.J.: Defence Works Plymouth Area 1300-1983. 1984. The Cornish Magazine, vol II for 1899: Edgcumbe, Lady Ernestine: Mount Edgcumbe).
Listing NGR: SX4334551282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61834
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970)
Rawlings, KJ, Defence Works Plymouth Area 1300-1983, (1984)
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 2, (), 238
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 2, (), 317
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 2, (), 794
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 2, (), 1550 1984
Edgcumbe, E, Cornish Magazine in Mount Edgcumbe, Vol. 2, (1899)
Edgcumbe, E, Cornish Magazine in Mount Edgcumbe, Vol. 2, (1899)
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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 09-Jun-2026 at 01:13:21.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.