Trevenson House

Trevenson House, Church Road, Pool, Redruth, TR15 3PT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392498
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-2005
List Entry Name:: Trevenson House
Statutory Address:: Trevenson House, Church Road, Pool, Redruth, TR15 3PT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392498
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-2005
List Entry Name:: Trevenson House
Statutory Address 1:: Trevenson House, Church Road, Pool, Redruth, TR15 3PT

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:: Trevenson House, Church Road, Pool, Redruth, TR15 3PT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Carn Brea
National Grid Reference:: SW 66465 41645

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/05/2020

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CARN BREA POOL CHURCH ROAD Trevenson House

(formerly listed as Trevenson House, Camborne-Pool-Redruth College, POOL)

II House; now college. Built 1797; remodelled circa the early C20. Pink Tolgarrack stone with ashlar front with granite dressings. Slate roof with granite parapet to front and eaves cornice at sides and rear. Stacks truncated below roof.

PLAN: L-shaped on plan with principal rooms and staircase in the main front range and service wing at the back. Neo-classical style.

EXTERIOR: two storeys. two:one:two bay south east front with granite parapet, cornice, stringcourses and rusticated quoins; centre bay advanced with neo-Classical Venetian window; four-pane sashes; ground floor early C20 granite bay windows with tripartite sashes with glazing bars, large granite porch with pilasters, cornice, semi-circular fanlight and tall sashes with glazing bars on splayed sides. Right hand [north east] return three:two bays, sashes with glazing bars, left bay blind, single-storey stone canted bay window to left of centre.

INTERIOR only partly inspected; Edwardian staircase with timber balustrade with heavy moulded handrail ramped up to newels and with arcaded screen on landing.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Trevenson House was built in 1797 for Thomas Kevill, steward of the Tehidy estate and replaced an earlier house on the site.

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Legacy System number:: 490324
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.