A Grand Old Country House to Restore in Cornwall
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Ref: LCAA6131 Offers over £500,000 Trenoweth House, Crowan, Camborne, Cornwall FREEHOLD A grand old country house to restore in Cornwall. To be sold for the first time in about 25 years; a handsome detached Grade II Listed former vicarage of about 4,600sq.ft. plus a gorgeous detached coach house, both of a rarefied style and grandeur for Cornwall, requiring significant renovation but offering exceptional potential. An opportunity to resurrect a very private and hidden away country house and grounds which are currently overgrown but were once landscaped and extend to about 3⅔ acres. 2 Ref: LCAA6131 SUMMARY OF ACCOMMODATION Ground Floor: reception hall, grand study, drawing room, dining room, utility room, rear reception hall, kitchen, back kitchen with apple loft above. First Floor: broad turning staircase and galleried landing, 4 bedrooms, wc, bathroom. Inner landing with staircase to the second floor, vast open-plan vaulted ceilinged studio (potential master bedroom). Second Floor: landing with 2 store rooms off, 4 further bedrooms. Outside: long driveway lined with rhododendrons through wooded overgrown grounds to a large parking area and further parking area beyond in front of the sizeable and handsome COACH HOUSE. Large single storey room attached to the house and overgrown PERIOD BARN, overgrown MODERN OUTBUILDING. Formerly the gardens had an orchard, sweeping lawns and terraces and a pond set within the woodland. In all, about 3⅔ acres. DESCRIPTION Described by its Listed Buildings Register as “a vicarage on a grandiose scale, deliberately asymmetrical in plan and elevations, the varying quality of the architectural detail expressing the functions of the rooms within”. A further extract from the Listed Buildings Register notes the most important details, although the register notes are extensive about the external appearance (as the property was not inspected internally) due to the unique nature of this Tudor inspired yet late Victorian former vicarage. “Vicarage, now private house. Datestone 1888. Granite rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, doorways, mullioned windows and gable copings. Steep roofs on 3 levels with some gabled dormers and most gables coped; dry Delabole slate to garden front, otherwise grouted scantle slate; large stone stacks, some lateral, some over gable ends, 2 external; crested clay ridge tiles. Cast iron ogee gutters, rainwater heads and down pipes”. The house is now in a poor state of internal repair and although part of the roof has been re-laid in wet scantle slate, other parts of the roof require immediate attention, as does the splendid and architecturally exciting coach house. This is an opportunity on a grand scale, the likes of which we are unlikely to see for years to come. The interior layout lends itself very well to the continued use of the three main formal rooms off the entrance hall with fantastic potential in the extremely spacious rear wings for a vast open-plan kitchen and day living room opening to the garden along with service rooms. The same is true of the first and second floors where the more formal rooms have period details and high ceilings. There is still great potential to work within the structure creating a magnificent master bedroom suite 3 Ref: LCAA6131 and as many or as few bedrooms and bathrooms as one could possible want, all of course subject to all necessary consents. The house stands within formerly stunning grounds – see the historic photographs included. In total, the grounds extend to about 3⅔ acres and are now almost entirely overgrown but have all of the attributes in place to bring them back to their glory days including cut granite gate piers opening onto a long tarmaced driveway through woodland and rhododendrons up to the house and beyond to the coach house. Open expansive lawns were once punctuated with hydrangeas and overlooked by elevated terraces on the southern end of the house. The lawns ran down to a large pond and there were excellent views to the south and west over surrounding countryside and the woodland around the Clowance Estate. Along the top boundary was an orchard and there are also various outbuildings within the grounds that could be restored. LOCATION Trenoweth House is in a very accessible location with the Hayle to Helston and Camborne to Helston roads both nearby and from them quick access is gained to the main south and north coast roads linking to Penzance, St Ives and Carbis Bay, Falmouth, Truro and both the Land’s End and Lizard peninsulas. There are village stores close by at both Praze and Leedstown as well as numerous pubs in the locality including at the beautiful village of Godolphin close to the Godolphin House National Trust Estate which has walks through woodland and more open countryside. A much larger array of facilities can be found at the near equidistantly located Helston, Camborne and Hayle which between them have out of town supermarkets, numerous 4 Ref: LCAA6131 shops and a full range of services. The recently opened Marks & Spencer, Next and Boots trading estate outside of Hayle is also just a short distance away, as are various farm shops including the highly regarded Trevaskis at Connor Downs where there is also a restaurant. The north and south coasts are both easily accessible, being about 5 miles away each with sandy beaches at Praa Sands and Hayle/Gwithian and more rugged coastal scenery to the north of St Ives Bay beyond Godrevy Lighthouse and around the many headlands along the south coast, where there is also St Michael’s Mount in Mounts Bay which is accessible by foot causeway at low tide from Marazion. THE ACCOMMODATION COMPRISES (all floor plans and dimensions are approximate) From the driveway a heavy arched wooden door leads through a granite surround to:- RECEPTION HALL. 10’ high ceiling as found throughout the principal rooms of the ground floor, granite arched window to the front, turning staircase leading to the galleried landing above. Doors to:- STUDY. High ceiling currently without boarding. Areas of exposed stone walls requiring finishing. Broad three section granite mullioned window with shutters, fireplace with alcoves to either side and cabinets. DRAWING ROOM. High ceiling, dual aspect of granite mullioned windows, one in a bay to the south and one to the west both with shutters. Large fireplace. 5 Ref: LCAA6131 DINING ROOM. Four section granite mullioned window to the west, splendid fireplace, high ceiling. SERVANT’S ROOM / UTILITY. Granite mullioned window to the front, space and plumbing for utilities, large cupboard leading under the stairs, original servant’s bells. Door to:- REAR RECEPTION HALL. Granite mullioned window to the front and further window to the rear, large wooden arch topped doors in granite surrounds opposite each other opening to the driveway and to the rear garden. Plumbing for a wc and wash basin, covered staircase down to a SMALL CELLAR with vaulted ceiling. Broad openings and door to:- KITCHEN. Not currently used as a kitchen but it evidently has been in the past. Four section granite mullioned window to the rear, wonderful cut granite fireplace with deep arch topped granite alcoves to either side. Door to:- BACK KITCHEN. Large doors to the driveway and to the single storey wing opposite each other, large granite fireplace. Staircase to:- FIRST FLOOR APPLE LOFT. Of equal size to the room below and was not visible during our visit. SINGLE STOREY WING. Not visible during our inspection. 6 Ref: LCAA6131 FIRST FLOOR LANDING. 9’ high ceiling as found throughout the majority of this floor. Galleried over the staircase and lit by a granite mullioned window at half landing height. Doors to the principal bedrooms, bathroom and wc and also to the rear wing. BATHROOM. Arched window in a granite surround, white bath with period style mixer tap and hand shower attachment, large white pedestal wash basin, bidet. This room is perfectly useable at the moment. BEDROOM 1. Currently used as the kitchen with fitted units, oven, dishwasher and a sink. Granite mullioned window to the front, fireplace. BEDROOM 2. Dual aspect of granite mullioned windows to the south and west elevations, fireplace, recessed cupboards. BEDROOM 3. Granite mullioned window to the west. BEDROOM 4. Three section granite mullioned window overlooking the countryside at the rear, fireplace. WC. Approached via a short hall under the staircase to the second floor with a cupboard below. Exposed stone walls, one area having been partly removed below a porthole window but the stone work is here to rebuild it. A door from the landing opens to a small staircase hall with stairs rising to the second floor. A further door opens to:- STUDIO / POTENTIAL MASTER BEDROOM. Open vaulted ceiling. This is part of the house that has had the roof replaced with an open structure. Exposed stone end wall with fireplace. Granite windows to the front and rear. SECOND FLOOR LANDING. The second floor has full head height and off the landing are two walk-in store rooms and 4 further bedrooms with windows enjoying excellent views from this elevated position. 7 Ref: LCAA6131 OUTSIDE The house cannot be seen at all from the quiet lane that leads into Crowan as it is set at the end of a long tarmaced driveway which initially starts through a pair of cut granite gate piers and stone walls. The driveway snakes through the overgrown grounds but they were evidently well tended and stocked as many specimens can be seen at the drive side including large rhododendrons. The majority of the grounds are found to the south of the house, to either side of the drive and under the foliage is believed to be terraces, a pond and a formal lawn although a large amount of clearing is required.