Description

LAUNCESTON

SX3284 CASTLE STREET
660-1/4/17 (West side)
27/02/50 No.3
The Eagle House Hotel

GV II*

Large detached town house. 1764 for Coryndon Carpenter.
Red brick laid to Flemish bond with stuccoed channelled
rustications to basement, quoins and projecting keys to nearly
flat arches and stuccoed porch; dry Delabole slate hipped roof
with modillioned pediment and eaves cornices; large brick
axial stack, another stack on right; gabled roof dormers to
side elevations.
Double-depth square plan. 2 storeys plus attics over basement;
symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front with central open-pedimented bays
broken forward. Keyed oculus to tympanum; pedimented
surmounted by central Grecian-style figure flanked by arms.
Original hornless sashes with thick glazing bars.
Central late C19 porch, with Venetian style window with Ionic
columns and entablature with modillions and moulded cornice
over original basement window; side doors approached by pair
of dog-leg staircases with oval-pierced balustrades with
moulded strings and handrails and square newels.
Rear, later stuccoed, has 2 canted bays and later sashes.
Left-hand return has early C19 canted bay with its original
sashes.
INTERIOR: original features including modillion ceiling
cornices to small panelled rooms right of entrance hall;
moulded cornice to some chambers; fielded dado panelling to
left-hand room and panelled doors. The most impressive and
possibly slightly later features, are in the stair hall with
open-well open-string staircase (with later fretted wood
simulating iron balustrade) and rococo plaster-work and rear
left-hand room with similar plasterwork and doorways with
eared architraves with bead and reel and other enrichments.
Rear right-hand room has early C19 heavily-moulded coffered
ceiling. The exceptionally fine quality C18 plasterwork is
reputed to be by the same craftsmen as that at Castle Hill
House (qv) and Lawrence House (qv).

Listing NGR: SX3302784716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Eagle House Hotel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17534268

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)