Description

HELSTON

SW62NW PENROSE HILL
631-1/1/203 Helston Lodge

GV II

Estate lodge. 1838-41. By H Park Street. For John Rogers.
Kitchen added 1879. Killas rubble with granite dressings; dry
Delabole slate roof with projecting eaves and verges with
angled moulded fascia, moulded barge boards and exposed paired
purlins with nail-head ends, 2 gabled dormer windows; 2
lateral rubble stacks, one in the angle and one at rear left,
both with granite weatherings and brick shafts. Original plan
L-shaped plus later kitchen at rear left. Tudor Gothic style.
2 storeys with 1st-floor rooms partly in roof space; irregular
2-window entrance front with entrance wing fronted by gable
porch projecting forward on the right. 3-light granite
mullioned windows with hoodmoulds to ground floor, 2-light
windows to 1st-floor, all with C20 casements with glazing
bars. 1st-floor left-hand window on moulded corbelled sill;
window to ground and 1st-floor of right-hand return. 4-centred
arched granite doorway with the 2 arch stones projecting as
moulded kneelers; studded door with 3 vertical panels and
small windows to sides of porch. INTERIOR: original panelled
doors and other carpentry and joinery features but C20
staircase. Above the bay window is a frieze of carved panels
some of which are probably C17 and presumed to have come from
the Manor House (qv).

Listing NGR: SW6461325617

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490883

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)