CAERHAYS CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1327071
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: CAERHAYS CASTLE
Statutory Address:: CAERHAYS CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1327071
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: CAERHAYS CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: 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:: 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:: SW9712441638

Details

ST MICHAEL CAERHAYS SW 94 SE 3/131 Caerhays Castle

GV I

Country house. 1808, by John Nash, for J.B. Trevanion. Slatestone rubble with granite and Pentewan stone dressings. Lead roofs behind parapets. Plan: A large castellated mansion, of asymmetrical plan; the entrance front is to north west and the garden front is to south east. The entrance front has a large porte cochere, and the garden front has a 2-bay wing projecting to left. There are towers of circular and polygonal plan, asymmetrically placed. The main apartment is a long, wide gallery, with a stair at one end, with library, drawing-room etc. leading off. The service quarters are attached to south west, and are described separately. A picturesque Gothic composition. Exterior: 2 storeys. The entrance front is nearly symmetrical. The 2 storey porch is central, embattled, with open ground floor with ribbed plaster vault. There are chamfered granite arches to the front and sides, and inner doorway with double 3- panelled doors. To left, there is a 2-light casement at ground and first floor, with hood moulds. Some casements are original, and some have glazing replaced in the later C19, without the small panes. To left, a polygonal tower with embattled parapet and casement and loops; buttress to left and smaller casement at ground and first floor. To the right of the porch, there is a 4-light casement at ground floor and 2-light casement at first floor, both with hood moulds. To right a square plan towel with angle buttresses and 2-centred arched chamfered doorway with hood mould. At first floor the tower has single light casement and lancets with ventilation louvres; embattled parapet. There is an inner panelled and glazed door with 2- centred arched Gothic fanlight. To right there is a single casement at first floor and polygonal stacks. Lead rainwater heads. The garden front is 2-storey. The centrepiece is formed by two polygonal embattled 3-storey towers with casements at ground and first floor and blind windows at second floor. The ground floor has an asymmetrical arrangement of casements with hood moulds; the windows are smaller at first floor, with embattled parapet overall. To right there is a large circular plan embattled tower of 3 storeys, forming the corner of the house, with casements at all floors. To left there is a 2-bay wing, of 3- storeys, with casements at each floor, terminating in a square plan tower with corbelled embattled parapet. There is a small circular single storey tower set in the corner between the main front and the wing. The overall effect is asymmetrical, with details such as a slender polygonal tower with ogee stone roof and cross finial set to the right of the centrepiece. The north east side of the house has 3 bays to centre, with tower to right and left at the corners, each with corbelled embattled parapet. At ground floor there are 4- light mullion and transom windows at ground floor with hood moulds and two doors to right. At first and second floors there are casements; the windows diminish in size in the upper storeys. The windows at upper level retain the original small panes. Facing the service courtyard, the house has random fenestration. Interior: Not accessible. See Summerson for some information about the interior. Sources: Pevsner, N.: Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970. Summerson, J.: The Life and Work of John Nash, Architect. 1980.

Listing NGR: SW9712441638

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Legacy System number:: 71629
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.