Description

HAYLE TRELISSICK ROAD (west side), Hayle SW 5436-5536 12/162 Glanmor House -

GV II* House. Circa 1862. Built for Harvey and Co for their transport manager. Stuccoed walls. Hipped grouted scantle slate roofs with central valley and linked across the garden front. Projecting eaves with cast iron ogee gutters. Chamfered stuccoed grouped chimney shafts at rear left, over right-hand wall, over cross wall of lower service wing, right, and towards rear, far right. Plan: Unaltered double depth plan with 2-rooms-wide reception area of the house on the left and shallower plan 2-rooms-wide service area on the right. Main house has central hallway leading to stair hall and axial passage behind right-hand room; 2 linked reception rooms to garden front, left, and another reception room behind axial passage, 2 storey bay windows to garden front and at rear right. At rear left is a large bay window/conservatory. Later lean-to conservatory added to service end at rear. Classical style. Exterior: 2-storeys. Similar stucco details to each front: plinth; giant engaged panelled corner pilaster; rusticated courses to ground floor; vermiculated first floor band under sills; moulded sills; moulded architraves and panelled frieze under eaves cornice. Reception block has original hornless sashes with plate glass, service wing has original hornless sashes with glazing bars. Symmetrical 3 window entrance front with original central porch and lower 3 window service wing set back on the right. Porch is approximately Tuscan distyle in antae with round headed windows between the square columns and central doorway with original door and overlight. Entablature has moulded brackets to the cornice and there is an ornate parapet with pierced balustrade over. 2-bay garden front: 2-storey canted bay windows with pilaster mullions and round arch lights to the ground floor; moulded brackets to the cornices under the first floor sills and moulded cornices to the windows above. Rear has similar details 2-storey bay window on the left and large canted 5-light bay with pilaster mullions and entablature on the right. Service wing has wide mid-floor band and moulded architraves to the windows. Interior: Complete interior with cast-iron stair balustrade by Harvey and Co; original doors, architraves and door furniture; chimney-pieces; and fine plasterwork ceilings with possibly the original colour scheme (repainted early C20).

Listing NGR: SW5551036579

External Links

• Wikidata Q17535043

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