Description

ST DAY SCORRIER SW 74 SW 6/354 Scorrier House GV II Large house. Mostly c.1910, replacing the larger C18 house of the Williams family, but with part of the service wing surviving. Granite ashlar, slate roofs. H-plan facing east, with entrance in north side, plus L-plan rear wing. Classical style. Two storeys and 1:3:1 bays; plinth, 1st floor band, cornice and blocking course, raised quoins. The symmetrical east facade has a set-back 3-bay centre containing windows with plain reveals and flat-arched heads with raised keystones; the wings have canted bay windows at ground floor and tripartite windows above with cornices on consoles; all the windows sashed without glazing bars. Low hipped roof concealed. The 4-bay entrance front on the north side has a large square single-storey porte-cochere in the 3rd bay, which has rusticated corner pilasters, a moulded cornice and blocking course, and wide round-headed arches in all sides, with imposts, moulded heads and keystones, a pyramidal glazed roof, and a round-headed inner doorway with side windows. At 1st floor above this is a tripartite window like those in the of the wings; the other windows match those at the front. The south front (left return of left wing) is only 3 bays, in similar style, but with a long rectangular conservatory attached. Continued to the rear of this wing is a lower range in different masonry, with segmental-headed 12-pane sashes with keystones; attached at right angles to this is the surviving C18 service wing, which is of brick, with segmental-headed sashed windows; and at the end of this, a 3-storey elemment of killas rubble and ashlar which has a one-bay south front which has tripartite sashed windows with keystones. Interior: the ground floor of the 3-bay centre is a very large hall with imperial staircase; the former kitchen in the rear wing has a very large fireplace.

Listing NGR: SW7251543786

External Links

• Scorrier House at Wikipedia
• Scorrier House official website
• Wikidata IDs Q26456017 Q7435427

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