Description

FORRABURY AND PARADISE ROAD, Boscastle
SX 0990 MINSTER

7/86 Paradise
GV II
House. 1820. Built for Richard Benoke. Slate stone rubble, render probably
replacing stucco on front elevation and slate hung on rear elevation. Slate roof
with hipped ends and overhanging eaves. Five diagonally set brick axial chimney
stacks.
Double depth plan: central through passage with 2 main reception rooms on front and
2 smaller service rooms to rear; front and rear rooms heated by back-to-back
fireplaces. Stair on left hand side of passage. Cellar and single-storey
outbuildings on rear contained further service rooms including dairy and wash-house.
C20 extension on rear.
Two storeys and basement. Symmetrical three window front; original early C19 12-
pane hornless sashes with crown glass. Ground floor raised above basement with stone
steps leading up to central entrance; C19 open porch with unfluted columns and
moulded cornice and C19 part glazed 6-panel door. Flanked by canted bay windows with
hornless sashes. First floor with 3 12-pane hornless sashes.
Interior largely intact. Entrance hall has moulded plaster cornice with floral trail
and hall arch. Left hand room with chimney-piece removed and right hand room with
C19 marble chimney piece and early C19 reeded plaster cornice. Lower flight of early
C19 open-string stair remodelled in mid C20 when rail renewed. Doors, doorcases and
slate flag floors largely complete.
Paradise was erected for Richard Benoke in circa 1820. It was possibly built as the
manor house, subsequent to the demolition of the earlier house which probably stood
on the west side of Fore Street, to the north of the Napoleon Inn. Benoke was
shortly forced to sell and Paradise was purchased by Mr William Cole.
Paradise is a well preserved early C19 house. For houses with similar plans and
internal details see Orchard House and Targon, Gunpool Lane, Boscastle and Trafalgar
in Lesnewth parish.
Maclean, Sir J. Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the
County of Cornwall. 1879.
Information from owner.

Listing NGR: SX0992890471

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436322

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings