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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503618

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)