Description

SW 73 NE PERRANARWORTHAL VALE VIEW, Ponsanooth

3/365 Vale House

GV II

Small country house. Early C19. Stuccoed walls with flat surfaces texture grouted in the C20. Low pitched hipped dry Delabole slate roof with moulded soffits under projecting eaves. Stuccoed axial chimneys with cornices over cross walls. Plan of 3 reception rooms to garden front with projecting central room, axial entrance passage/hall behind right-hand room leading to central stair behind middle room and service wing behind left-hand roof. Classical style. 2 storeys. Plinth, rusticated quoin strips and band cornice. Original 12-pane hornless sashes with crown glass. Symmetrical 1:1:1 bay 3-window south garden front with central bay, surmounted by moulded pediment, broken forward. Tripartite sash to ground floor projecting slightly with plain pilasters to either side surmounted by entablature with moulded cornice. Regular 2-window east entrance front has doorway towards right with 4-panel door, later top-glazed, overlight, and stucco architrave, all within distyle stucco Tuscan porch with inner pilaster antae. Interior not inspected but judging by the quality and little altered nature of the exterior, there may well be good carpentry, joinery and plasterwork within. A well proportioned early C19 house with sloping planted grounds overlooking the Kennal Valley.

Listing NGR: SW7572338145

External Links

• Wikidata Q26454720

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Devon (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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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2