Description

SX 26 SE MENHENIOT

11/82 Tencreek and garden wall and
gatepiers on south west

GV II

Farmhouse and garden walls and gate piers. Farmhouse circa late C16. Rubblestone
with cut granite and slatestone dressings. Rendered on left-hand gable end of front
(south) range. Slate roof with gable ends to front range and to rear wings. Large
rubblestone stacks with granite strings in gable ends of south front and rear wings.
U-shaped plan, originally arranged around central courtyard now enclosed. Through
passage with probably kitchen wing to rear on left (west). Gabled staircase
projection to rear, near centre, with newel stair rising from left (west) of through
passage. 2 storeys and attic, almost symmetrical, 4 window south front with sash
windows replacing original mullioned windows. Part of front wall rebuilt. Gabled 2
storey central porch. Ground floor, to left of porch 20 pane sash with crown glass.
Double 12-pane sash with horns. Both under continuous concrete lintel with slate
string above ground floor removed. To right of porch, 20 pane sash with horns in
partly blocked opening with cut stone arch and remains of slate string above.
To first floor, 4 pairs of 12-pane sashes beneath timber lintels. Central double
storey porch with 2 centred arch with double ovolo and fillet between. Flat stops.
C19 gothic door with lower timber panels and 2 pointed glazed lights with coloured
glass and margin glazing bars. 2 rectangular slits in side walls of porch with part
of reused granite mullion forming cill and lintel to opening on right. Slate stone
string continues above ground floor of porch, joining remains to right and left of
main range. Above, 12-pane sash beneath concrete lintel. Rear left-hand wing, 2
storeys, with 4-light mullion window with cavetto moulds and later casements. C19
tripartite sash above without horns. Continuing to rear, late C19, 2 storey
extension under lower roof. Brick dressings to segmental arches. Right-hand rear
wing, 2 storeys. 3-light casement with glazing bars on ground floor, timber lintel
and slate hood above. C19 tripartite sash without horns above. C20 extension
continuing on gable end. To rear, gable ends of rear wings and gable end of
staircase projection visible from above C20 single-storey extension filling
courtyard. Small window slits on ground floor now blocked.
Interior; Inner entrance door with rectangular oak frame with ovolo mould and flat
stops decorated with radiating incised lines. Tongue below. Door, vertical planked
with simple rail and stile. Ledged and braced to rear with strap hinges. C17
doorcase with ovolo mould in rear left hand wing.

Late C19 staircase to left of wide entrance lobby. Fireplaces blocked with later
grates. Cloam oven in rear wing on right. Original newel staircase to rear. First
stage covered with later C19 staircase. Upper stages intact with heavy central
square timber newel and timber treads.
Roof timbers not inspected.
Rubblestone garden wall continues south from west gable end of house. 2 large square
granite gate piers with ball finials. Lands formerly in possession of Richard, Earl
of Cornwall who possibly briefly lived at Tencreek. Polsue quotes a C17 description
by Hals; 'For in the old dilapidated house of this once famous fabric, I saw the
ruins of a moorstone oven, about 14 foot diameter, in testimony of the hospitality
once kept there. And moreover, in front of the castlewise moorstone gate, or portal,
'I beheld his arms cut in stone'. No evidence of these items visible. Later property
of Trevilles. c1761 barton property of Samuel Pett.
J Polsue Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall 1867-73 rp 1979

Listing NGR: SX2657463663

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599162

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