TREDETHY COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL

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Country house of C17 date, possibly on the site of an earlier house. Considerably altered 1892 to the designs of Silvanus Trevail. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327967
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-2010
List Entry Name:: TREDETHY COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: TREDETHY COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1327967
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-2010
List Entry Name:: TREDETHY COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: TREDETHY COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TREDETHY COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Mabyn
National Grid Reference:: SX 06173 71795

Details

ST MABYN

1556/5/111 TREDETHY COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL 16-NOV-10

II Country house of C17 date, possibly on the site of an earlier house. Considerably altered 1892 to the designs of Silvanus Trevail.

MATERIALS: Country house of stone rubble with granite dressings. Double span slate roof with gable ends and canted hipped end to front left. Moulded brick axial and end stacks.

PLAN: The earlier range appears to comprise the rear east side of the main range. The early C17 barrel vaulted ceiling, probably for a principal chamber on the first floor, illustrates the quality of the earlier house. In 1892 the house was extended to the west and across the front of the earlier range forming an overall double depth plan. The entrance to west of centre leads directly into a large hall heated by an axial stack with the two principal rooms to right and left heated by end stacks. The stair to the rear of the hall was inserted in the earlier range, partly piercing the C17 ceiling on the first floor. To the rear of the house was a stable range, now converted to domestic use with a service range to rear right.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 1:3 window front with two storey canted bay windows to right and left; C19 stone porch with pilasters and entablature to left of centre. C19 door in porch with three-light sash to left and sashes in the canted bays to right and left. First floor with pair of sashes above entrance, sash to right and sashes in the canted bays. C20 dormers to attic.

INTERIOR: Complete joinery and fittings of 1892. Open well stair with barley-sugar twist balusters, moulded rail and square newels ornamented with carved lion's heads. Principal chamber of circa early C17 range has a notable barrel vaulted ceiling with moulded ribs, restored floral motifs, finial and moulded cornice. The ceiling was truncated when the stair was inserted in 1892, although the C17 ceiling is believed to continue within the roof space. There are several pieces of late medieval tracery which have been found in the garden, relating to an earlier house.

HISTORY: An early C17 country house, with probable C15 origins considerably extended in 1892 by Silvanus Trevail (1851-1903) for Francis J. Hext Esq. JP. This was previously the seat of the Rev Charles Peters (1690-1774), a Hebrew scholar. During the mid C20 it was home to Prince Chula of Thailand. It is now a country house hotel. SOURCES: Cornwall Record Office AD396/250.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The Tredethy Country House Hotel is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * as a good early-C17 evolved country house, possibly on the site of an earlier house * for the involvement of Silvanus Trevail in the restoration

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Legacy System number:: 67744
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.