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Tranquility

A Grade II Listed Building in Penryn, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.1752 / 50°10'30"N

Longitude: -5.1069 / 5°6'24"W

OS Eastings: 178258

OS Northings: 35190

OS Grid: SW782351

Mapcode National: GBR ZB.45PB

Mapcode Global: FRA 086K.D7W

Plus Code: 9C2P5VGV+37

Entry Name: Tranquility

Listing Date: 22 September 1971

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1298617

English Heritage Legacy ID: 365683

ID on this website: 101298617

Location: Lower Treluswell, Cornwall, TR10

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Penryn

Built-Up Area: Penryn

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: St Gluvias

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description



PENRYN

SW73NE Tranquility
580-1/1/2
22/09/71

GV II

Small country house. Early C19. Stucco on rubble with quoin
strips; ground floor impost band and mid-floor band; dry slate
hipped roof with projecting eaves, axial stacks.
Double-depth plan plus service wing at right-angles to rear
right. Regency style. 2 storeys over basement; symmetrical
3-bay, 3-window garden front. Half-conical roofed bowed
central bay; C20 copy 16-pane hornless sashes with round
fanlight heads to ground-floor sashes and late C19 small
round-headed windows inserted to sides of central bay.
Left-hand return is 2-window front with similar sashes.
Rear has original central projecting entrance bay with 16-pane
sash over, 6-panel door with moulded panels with corner blocks
and spoked fanlight; recessed panels to sides of porch,
12-pane sash to stair hall on left; blind windows to bay set
back on right with C20 spoked round window to lower panel and
service wing projecting on the left.
INTERIOR: virtually complete with fine plasterwork and joinery
including: open-well open-string staircase with scrolled tread
ends, ramped mahogany handrail and wreathed newel with carved
post; doorways with moulded architraves with corner blocks
with roundels, 6-panel doors; moulded and carved ceiling bands
to entrance hall, stair hall, central reception room and
right-hand room; moulded cornice to left-hand room and
fanlight between entrance and stair halls.
A good example of its type, with an elegant facade.


Listing NGR: SW7825835190

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