Description

LISKEARD

SX2464 WEST STREET
979-1/5/192 (South side)
22/07/81 Westbourne House and attached
forecourt walls and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
WEST STREET
(South side)
Westbourne House)

GV II

Large suburban house. 1816. Possibly by J Foulston for NW
Penrose, Solicitor, refronted 1860 by Henry Rice. Incised
stucco with stone dressings; dry Delabole slate hipped roof
with projecting eaves on wooden brackets; stuccoed stacks with
cornices, moulded gutters. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys; 4-window range south garden front. Original
hornless large-paned sashes within stone surrounds;
segmental-arched lights to ground floor; left and right-hand
bays with 4-pane sashes over 2-light windows with triangular
pediments with mutules to cornices; central bays have stepped
tripartite sashes over canted 4-light segmental-arched stone
bay windows with balustraded parapets over similar cornices;
column mullions with Corinthian or Ionic caps. Original north
entrance front of 1:3:1-bays has central porch with blind
sidelights, roundels to panelled frieze and railings over
parapet; doorcase with panelled sides and traceried fanlight;
4-panel door with fielded panels; projecting end bays have
ground-floor sashes with segmental arched recessed panels;
original horned sashes; stair sash right of door over porch,
with coloured glass and margin panes.
INTERIOR of porch has rib vault; egg-and-dart cornice to
vestibule; traceried fanlight over inner doors with Art
Nouveau glazed panels; open-well open-string staircase with
mahogany handrail scrolled over newel; moulded and carved
cornice. Some other moulded cornices and more Art Nouveau
detail. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls surmounted by
railings with spearhead finials over bars and urns over
stanchions.

Listing NGR: SX2496164660

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482547

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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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