Description

HELSTON

SW62NE MENEAGE ROAD 631-1/2/153 (West side (off)) 22/05/72 Nansloe and attached kitchen garden walls (Formerly Listed as: MENEAGE ROAD Nansloe)

GV II

Country house. Early C18, remodelled and extended 1900. By HMR Blue. Elvan ashlar front with flat arches to ground floor; 1900 coved and moulded eaves cornice to heightened eaves; dry Delabole slate roof to front, scantle slate to rear outshut and asbestos slate to rear wing with rear hip; stuccoed stacks with moulded cornices; end stacks to original front range and axial stack to rear wing. C18 L-shaped plan with former probable stair projection in rear angle plus 1900 cross wing projecting at front and rear on the right. 2-storeys. 5:1-bay front with symmetrical C18 five-window front on the left. Horned sashes of 1900: 4-pane horned sashes over 5x8-pane sashes; half-hipped front end of cross wing on the right with 3-light transomed windows with similar sashes. Rear has entrance porch rear of cross wing with 9-panel door and spoked fanlight; tall transomed stair window to outshut right of cross wing with round-arched lights. Rear wing inner elevation is 2-window range with early C19 twelve-pane hornless sash on the left and tripartite sash with glazing bars on the right; later horned sashes to ground floor and central doorway with glazed and panelled door. INTERIOR: 2 original front rooms have early C18 six-panel doors with fielded panels and early C19 moulded and carved cornices and bands the left-hand room with egg and dart and arabesques. Other parts of house, where inspected, have carpentry, joinery and plasterwork of 1900 including bolection-moulded dado panelling to entrance and stair hall; open-well open-string staircase with square column balusters; panelled doors and moulded plaster ceiling cornices. Subsidiary features: kitchen garden walls of local rubble with scantle slate copings.

Listing NGR: SW6595026407

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