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SW84NW TRELISKE 880-1/1/319 Treliske School

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Country house, now school. c1880. For Sir George Smith. Granite ashlar; dry Delabole slate roof over left-hand wing otherwise replaced with asbestos slate; hipped main roof; stone axial and lateral stacks. Substantial double-pile plan plus service wing at rear; 2 reception rooms flanking a central entrance hall at the front; axial passage behind left-hand room; stair hall behind right-hand room; conservatory and billiard room on the left and summer room on the right. Classical style with Mannerist details. 2 storeys with flanking single-storey wings. Symmetrical 2-storey entrance front is 2:1:2-bays with central entrance bay broken forward and surmounted by a steep triangular pediment with oculus; plinth, moulded first-floor sill and moulded eaves cornice. Ground floor has distyle-in-antae porch with stepped stilted round arch over doorway with narrow sidelights; blind arcade to frieze on moulded brackets above; flanking bays have elliptical arches with rock-faced voussoirs with projecting keyblocks over 2-pane sashes. First floor has central tripartite sash with 2 over 1 panes to central sash and similar sashes to flanking bays. Original windows throughout. Conservatory on left has symmetrical front of 3:2:3-lights with taller central segmental lights over pair of doors rising into gabled dormer, margin panes to windows most with original coloured glass. Summer room on the right has symmetrical front of 3 pairs of lights. Other elevations in similar but plainer style retain most of their original features. INTERIOR: virtually complete as built and has a very high standard of carpentry and joinery details and plasterwork with moulded and carved cornices to most of the reception rooms. Entrance hall has heavy modillioned cornice and doorway between pair of slender columns with near Ionic capitals leading to large stair hall with mahogany handrail over cast-iron balustrade and scrolled over newel; fine stained-glass window. Many fine quality chimneypieces and doorcases. Summer room has open hammer-beam pitch-pine roof structure boarded between the trusses.

Listing NGR: SW8008845123

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