Description

FALMOUTH

SW8032SW TREGENVER ROAD
843-1/9/211 Belmont House
18/02/71

GV II

Small country house, later used as a boys school. Early C19,
built for Grylls the banker, remodelled mid-late C19. Textured
stucco on rubble with plinth and mid-floor band; asbestos
slatehanging to part of left-hand return and to slightly
jettied rear; asbestos slate hipped roofs plus half-conical
roof to centre of garden front; projecting eaves; 2 brick
axial stacks.
PLAN: U-shaped plan with 2 projecting rear wings:
3 rooms at the front; stair hall behind central room; entrance
hall behind right-hand room, study beyond and service rooms at
rear left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay garden front with bowed
central bay. Original or mid-C19 Gothic-style hornless sashes
with 2-centred-arched heads. Similar sashes to right-hand
return entrance front: 2:1:1-bays; recessed entrance bay 3rd
from left with 2-centred-arched doorway with 6-panel door
flanked by 2 small pointed casement windows; hood-mould and
deep hood over doorway. Rear has arched stair sash.
INTERIOR: mid-late C19 detail where inspected: panelled doors,
moulded plaster ceiling cornices with bands, and open-well,
open-string staircase with turned balusters.
(Information from owner).

Listing NGR: SW8008932347

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560024

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]