Arwenack House Arwenack Manor

Heritage listing

Details FALMOUTH SW8132SW GROVE PLACE 843-1/11/100 Arwenack House, Nos.1-5 22/07/49 (Consecutive), and Arwenack Manor GV II* Great house, for a time semi-fortified, now flats in Arwenack House and a house in Arwenack Manor. 1385 acquired by the Killigrews, mostly rebuilt 1571 by Sir John Killigrew, 1st Governor of Pendennis Castle (qv); partly destroyed by fire and reduced during the Civil War and partly rebuilt after, extended C18; neglected during the 1970s, eventually suffering a serious fire at the Manor end, and in 1978 repaired by Percy Williams, builders, of Redruth. Killas rubble with granite dressings; scantle slate roofs; C17 external rubble stack to right of Manor; 2 tall C17 external lateral stacks to right of right-hand cross wing; 3 later brick stacks. PLAN: originally probably an E-shaped plan with a wing at the far left (not extant), the right-hand part once fully enclosed by a front curtain wall with gateway or possibly a gatehouse; C18 front ranges towards left and at far right, with front semi-circular stair turret between cross wing and front wing. Most impressive, but possibly never completed or reduced, is the front wall of proposed or former great hall with flanking semi-octagonal turrets parallel to rear of left-hand courtyard. In the C18 the right-hand range of the right-hand courtyard was doubled within the courtyard concealing the mullioned windows and part of the adjoining rear range was rebuilt. At about the same time the central range was also doubled on its left obscuring part of the Great Hall wall. This C18 wing was badly damaged by the fire and was subsequently removed re-opening the former space within the left-hand courtyard. The right-hand side of this courtyard has been rebuilt with no attempt at replica or pastiche architecture but

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.