Tullimaar

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SW 73 NE PERRANARWORTHAL PERRANARWORTHAL

3/350 Tullimaar 30.5.67

GV II*

Country house. Circa 1828. Built for Benjamin Sampson, manager of a local powder factory. Stuccoed rubble walls. Hipped dry Delabole slate roofs around central leaded valley. Wide eaves, cast iron ogee and stuccoed chimneys with cornices over cross and axial walls. Plan: central entrance leading to large stair hall with 3 principal rooms to right facing the garden and a larger room to the left of the entrance. The kitchen behind the hall has service room in a wing to its left and to rear. Circa early C20 conservatory projecting from left-hand corner of entrance front. Neo classical style. 2 storeys. All fronts with plinth, string and square cornice and with corner pilasters. Symmetrical 3-bay 3-window south garden front with pilasters dividing bays and window within basket arched recesses. Symmetrical 3-window east garden front with windows set in rectangular recesses. Regular west 2:1:1 bay 4-window entrance front with windows in recesses like south front. Round-headed doorway to third bay from left has original fanlight with flower petal panes. Fine Doric porch with unfluted columns and plain frieze. All windows, except for round-headed stair sash, are 12-pane original hornless sashes with thin glazing bars or later horned copies. Interior is virtually complete with its C19 carpentry, joinery, some chimney pieces and plasterwork: mahogany 6-panel doors, open-well open-string stair and moulded plaster cornices to principal reception rooms, stair hall and chambers. Cornices and bands to reception rooms and stair hall with carved classical enrichments including egg and dart, acanthus, and trailing or plaited detail. Central roses to left and right reception rooms and stair hall. In the kitchen is a fine classical dresser. In the central east room there is a commemorative plaque with 'A shot was fired through this window by a sentry Running Amok 1944'. This incident occurred whilst General Eisenhower was using the house as his personal headquarters before D-Day. Tullimaar has been the home of many distinguished residents or guests including Sarah Parkin, mistress to George III, who spent her last years here; the Reverend Francis Kilvert who stayed here in 1870 and more recently, from 1957-1974 was owned by Princess Marthe Bibesco and her married daughter Princess Valentine Ghika (direct descendants of the Emperor Napoleon) and Prince Ghika. It is stated in the estate agents sale particulars of 1974 that the interior of the house was completely transformed in the French style during this period, but the present interior seems to be typical of what early C19 houses in England should be. Perhaps the description refers to the furnishings. Other historical information from present owner and the N.M.R. A fine and virtually complete early C19 house in well planted grounds overlooking the beautiful Kennal Valley. ...

Listing NGR: SW7824838853

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