Description

SW 72 NE MAWNAN HELFORD PASSAGE

9/99 Heyle (Nak Centre)
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GV II*

Country house, now in use as a residential school and home for handicapped children.
Dated 1914. The architect is not known, however the original architect's drawings
are said to be in the possession of the owner. Built for Mr and Miss Cooper
(brother and sister). Shale rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate
hipped roofs, some with gablets. Shale rubble stacks with moulded granite caps.
The rear wing is slate-hung on the first floor.
A large house in a vernacular revival Tudor style.
Plan: The main house is the south-facing range with a service wing at the rear of
the left hand end returning as a housekeeper's cottage and garage on the north side
of a rear courtyard. The entrance to the house is on the right hand east side
giving access to an axial passage along the back of the main range which has a large
drawing room at the left west end partly contained in the projecting left hand
wing, the hall at the centre with a loggia in front between the left and right hand
projecting wings; the right hand wing contains the sitting room with the stairhall
behind adjacent to the right side entrance. The axial passage along the back of the
main range leads to the service wing behind the drawing room at the left end. The
service wing returns as the housekeeper's cottage forming the north side of a rear
courtyard which is enclosed on the fourth right side by a low wall. The
housekeeper's cottage range continues to the right as a garage range facing the
entrance drive at the right side of the house.
Exterior: 2 storeys. All the windows to the main house and the ground floor of the
service wing have chamfered granite mullions and leaded iron casements. The south
garden front has projecting wings left and right, the ends of which are advanced
with hipped roofs over and 5-light mullion windows, the ground floor with transoms.
Set back between the wings two 4-light windows on the ground and first floors, the
ground floor with transoms and a central doorway set behind an open-fronted loggia
with one central round pier supporting a timber wall-plate and a scantle slate roof
with a lead flat. This section of the south front is symmetrical but to the left of
the left hand wing the main roof is carried down over an open-fronted (now glazed)
verandah in the angle with the wing and the main range which has a gable end, its
centre projecting with a 5-light mullion window on the ground and first floors, the
ground floor with transoms. At the back of this end a stack corbelled out from the
first floor with gableted set-offs and a circular shaft with a moulded granite cap.
The right hand (east) return of the main range is the entrance side, its
asymmetrical elevation is dominated by a gabled stack with an oval section (round
ended oblong) shaft with a moulded granite cap; to the right of the stack a tall
mullion-transom stair window and below to the right the main entrance has a
depressed 2-centred chamfered arch dying into the tapered deeply chamfered jambs;
over the arch a slate hoodmould. Set back inside the porch a chamfered doorway with
a studded plank door; on the lintel over the door the date 1914 and the Coopers'
monogram. To the right of the entrance a low wall steps down with slate capping; it
screens the service yard behind the main range. The roof at the back of the main
range facing the yard is carried down to lower eaves level and has 2 hipped dormers.
The service wing and housekeeper's cottage form the other 2 sides of the yard and
have slate hung first floor elevations with 2 and 3-light wooden mullion windows and
granite mullion windows on the ground floor. The back range (housekeeper's cottage)
is continued as a single storey garage range with a hipped slate roof with a
weather-vane, and a screen wall in front with slate capping.
Interior: The modest interior has only a few alterations such as the insertion of
partitions in the drawing room and between the hall and stairwell. The simple
staircase has chamfered stick balusters and square newels with finials. The hall is
panelled and has a Tudor-arched granite fireplace. The sitting room has a wooden
chimney-piece with a bracketted shelf. The service wing has a butler's pantry with
glazed cupboards, servants' staircase and a complete set of servants' bells in the
corridor.
Heyle was formerly situated in Constantine parish before the parish boundaries were
changed.

Listing NGR: SW7611226996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535273

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