Description

HELSTON

SW62NW PENROSE HILL 631-1/1/203 Helston Lodge

GV II

Estate lodge. 1838-41. By H Park Street. For John Rogers. Kitchen added 1879. Killas rubble with granite dressings; dry Delabole slate roof with projecting eaves and verges with angled moulded fascia, moulded barge boards and exposed paired purlins with nail-head ends, 2 gabled dormer windows; 2 lateral rubble stacks, one in the angle and one at rear left, both with granite weatherings and brick shafts. Original plan L-shaped plus later kitchen at rear left. Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys with 1st-floor rooms partly in roof space; irregular 2-window entrance front with entrance wing fronted by gable porch projecting forward on the right. 3-light granite mullioned windows with hoodmoulds to ground floor, 2-light windows to 1st-floor, all with C20 casements with glazing bars. 1st-floor left-hand window on moulded corbelled sill; window to ground and 1st-floor of right-hand return. 4-centred arched granite doorway with the 2 arch stones projecting as moulded kneelers; studded door with 3 vertical panels and small windows to sides of porch. INTERIOR: original panelled doors and other carpentry and joinery features but C20 staircase. Above the bay window is a frieze of carved panels some of which are probably C17 and presumed to have come from the Manor House (qv).

Listing NGR: SW6461325617

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas