Description

GWENNAP LOWER CUSGARNE
SW 74 SE
5/147 Tremont and Trenarren including
- garden walls
GV II
House and garden walls now divided into 2 houses. Date on east wall of 1821. Early
C19. Elvan ashlar garden and entrance fronts. Half-hipped scantle slate roof with
brick chimneys over side walls. Asbestos slate roof to rear (north west) with brick
chimney over gable end (now party wall with adjoining early/mid C19 house).
Plan of 2 room flanking central stair hall with passage behind left-hand room and
contemporary 1-room rear service wing beyond (north west) and narrow service room to
rear of right-hand room with further extension to right (east). 2 storeys.
Symmetrical 3-window garden front. Original taller 12-pane hornless sashes to ground
floor with internal shutters; 16-pane hornless sashes to first floor. Plinth,
granite sills and shallow elvan arches with projecting keystones. Central doorway
approached by 4 granite steps has round-headed arch. 6-panel door with blind
fanlight over.
2-window entrance front to south west side. Original 16-pane hornless sahes.
Doorway under second window has circa late C19 2-panel door with overlight and late
C19 wooden porch with stopped chamfers and jettied pendants supporting cornice with
modillion brackets. Doorway possibly late C19 inserted. Rear has original round-
headed sash to stair.
Interior is very intact with original open-string stick baluster dog-leg stair with
mahogany handrail, 6-panel mahogany doors with inner bead moulding to panels, moulded
architraves with roundels in corner blocks and moulded plaster ceiling cornices.
Granite ashlar garden wall to west, otherwise rubble.

Listing NGR: SW7593340816

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429816

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