Trelissick Manor House, Farmhouse And Cottage, Including Front And Rear Garden Wall, Summer House, Gate Piers And Gate

Heritage listing

Details ST ERTH SW 5435-5535 13/208 (was 12/130) Trelissick Manor House, Farmhouse - and Cottage, including front and rear garden walls, summer house, gate piers and gate GV II* Manor house (now 2 houses) and adjoining cottage, including front and rear garden walls, summer house, gate piers and gate. Medieval on a pre-Conquest site, remodelled in 1668 for the Paynter family and in the C18, and extended circa early C19. Granite rubble walls with granite dressings. Steep roofs with gable ends except for hipped end, far right: grouted scantle slate over the front range, otherwise concrete tiles. C17 granite ashlar stacks with moulded entablature at: gable ends left and rear (over external chimney breast); over cross wall between house and farmhouse and external lateral stack over left-hand wall of rear range. Plan: L-shaped plan plus 2-room-plan C19 cottage set back on left ; lean-to pantry or dairy left of kitchen and C19 butlers pantry at right-hand side of rear wing. Original plan and later medieval plan largely replaced by C17 plan incorporating parts of the earlier house. Front range is 5 rooms long. Rear wing (at right angles behind the left-hand side) has stair hall, back parlour and large kitchen (at rear). A quadrant-on-plan link turret (smaller plan to first floor) projects from the inner angle between the 2 principal ranges. The left-hand part of the front range is taller (as is the wing behind) and contains a principal parlour with principal chamber over. Both rooms have fine circa late C17 features. There is a cross passage on the right of the parlour and this leads to a passage on the right-hand side of the rear wing. The front wall for most of its length to the right of the passage is enormously thick (about 1.2 metres) and there is a ragged joint in the wal

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.