Description

GWENNAP LITTLE BESIDE
SW 74 SW
4/144 Little Beside House
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GV II
Country house. Manor house on O.S. map. Early C19, and extended early-mid C19.
Stucco. Slurried scantle slate roofs with parapet to front and brick chimneys over
gable ends.
Plan of 2 rooms with central stair hall; extended at either end circa early C19 with
1-room wings, originally 1 storied but left-hand (south east) wing later heightened
to provide first floor. Long central rear service wing with further wing at right
angles to south east and enclosing rear courtyard. 2 storeys.
1:3:1 bay north east front. 2-storey wing, left, and 1-storey wing right. Central
nearly symmetrical original 3-window part is broken forward. Plinth, mid-floor
string, moulded stucco parapet cornice and flanking rusticated quoin strips.
Original hornless 12-pane sashes with crown glass. Slate sills. Nearly central
doorway with part-glazed porch with arched lights and paired consoles under cornice.
Pair of part-glazed doors with arched lights. Flanking wings each have original
Gothic sash with glazing bars. Left-hand wing has string under sill and moulded
eaves cornice. Original 12-pane hornless sash.
Rear is partly slate-hung. Wing parallel to main front has 16-pane horizontal
sliding sashes.
Interior Very intact to original part of large stair hall and adjoining reception
rooms. Stair hall has fine geometric stair with open string, moulded treads,
scrolled tread ends, step. Geometric galleried landing, over Vitruvian scroll frieze
and moulded cornice. Plaster ceiling with acanthus cornice and trailing rose band.
Left and right-hand rooms have egg and dart over bead and reel to cornices and
moulded ceiling bands, with trailing wine to left-hand room and anthemion to other
room. Original 6-panel doors architraves, skirtings and window shutters. Other
parts not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW7345042886

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614283

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living