Description

PENRYN

SW73NE Tranquility
580-1/1/2
22/09/71

GV II

Small country house. Early C19. Stucco on rubble with quoin
strips; ground floor impost band and mid-floor band; dry slate
hipped roof with projecting eaves, axial stacks.
Double-depth plan plus service wing at right-angles to rear
right. Regency style. 2 storeys over basement; symmetrical
3-bay, 3-window garden front. Half-conical roofed bowed
central bay; C20 copy 16-pane hornless sashes with round
fanlight heads to ground-floor sashes and late C19 small
round-headed windows inserted to sides of central bay.
Left-hand return is 2-window front with similar sashes.
Rear has original central projecting entrance bay with 16-pane
sash over, 6-panel door with moulded panels with corner blocks
and spoked fanlight; recessed panels to sides of porch,
12-pane sash to stair hall on left; blind windows to bay set
back on right with C20 spoked round window to lower panel and
service wing projecting on the left.
INTERIOR: virtually complete with fine plasterwork and joinery
including: open-well open-string staircase with scrolled tread
ends, ramped mahogany handrail and wreathed newel with carved
post; doorways with moulded architraves with corner blocks
with roundels, 6-panel doors; moulded and carved ceiling bands
to entrance hall, stair hall, central reception room and
right-hand room; moulded cornice to left-hand room and
fanlight between entrance and stair halls.
A good example of its type, with an elegant facade.

Listing NGR: SW7825835190

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586090

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