Description

HAYLE TRELISSICK ROAD (west side), Hayle
SW 5436-5536
12/162 Glanmor House
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GV II*
House. Circa 1862. Built for Harvey and Co for their transport manager. Stuccoed
walls. Hipped grouted scantle slate roofs with central valley and linked across the
garden front. Projecting eaves with cast iron ogee gutters. Chamfered stuccoed
grouped chimney shafts at rear left, over right-hand wall, over cross wall of lower
service wing, right, and towards rear, far right.
Plan: Unaltered double depth plan with 2-rooms-wide reception area of the house on
the left and shallower plan 2-rooms-wide service area on the right. Main house has
central hallway leading to stair hall and axial passage behind right-hand room; 2
linked reception rooms to garden front, left, and another reception room behind axial
passage, 2 storey bay windows to garden front and at rear right. At rear left is a
large bay window/conservatory. Later lean-to conservatory added to service end at
rear. Classical style.
Exterior: 2-storeys. Similar stucco details to each front: plinth; giant engaged
panelled corner pilaster; rusticated courses to ground floor; vermiculated first
floor band under sills; moulded sills; moulded architraves and panelled frieze under
eaves cornice. Reception block has original hornless sashes with plate glass,
service wing has original hornless sashes with glazing bars. Symmetrical 3 window
entrance front with original central porch and lower 3 window service wing set back
on the right. Porch is approximately Tuscan distyle in antae with round headed
windows between the square columns and central doorway with original door and
overlight. Entablature has moulded brackets to the cornice and there is an ornate
parapet with pierced balustrade over.
2-bay garden front: 2-storey canted bay windows with pilaster mullions and round arch
lights to the ground floor; moulded brackets to the cornices under the first floor
sills and moulded cornices to the windows above.
Rear has similar details 2-storey bay window on the left and large canted 5-light bay
with pilaster mullions and entablature on the right. Service wing has wide mid-floor
band and moulded architraves to the windows.
Interior: Complete interior with cast-iron stair balustrade by Harvey and Co;
original doors, architraves and door furniture; chimney-pieces; and fine plasterwork
ceilings with possibly the original colour scheme (repainted early C20).

Listing NGR: SW5551036579

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535043

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