Belmont House England, UK
Small country house, later used as a boys school. Early C19, built for Grylls the banker, remodelled mid-late C19.
Description
Small country house, later used as a boys school. Early C19, built for Grylls the banker, remodelled mid-late C19. Textured stucco on rubble with plinth and mid-floor band; asbestos slatehanging to part of left-hand return and to slightly jettied rear; asbestos slate hipped roofs plus half-conical roof to centre of garden front; projecting eaves; 2 brick axial stacks.
Listed Building Description
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FALMOUTH
SW8032SW TREGENVER ROAD 843-1/9/211 Belmont House 18/02/71
GV II
Small country house, later used as a boys school. Early C19, built for Grylls the banker, remodelled mid-late C19. Textured stucco on rubble with plinth and mid-floor band; asbestos slatehanging to part of left-hand return and to slightly jettied rear; asbestos slate hipped roofs plus half-conical roof to centre of garden front; projecting eaves; 2 brick axial stacks. PLAN: U-shaped plan with 2 projecting rear wings: 3 rooms at the front; stair hall behind central room; entrance hall behind right-hand room, study beyond and service rooms at rear left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay garden front with bowed central bay. Original or mid-C19 Gothic-style hornless sashes with 2-centred-arched heads. Similar sashes to right-hand return entrance front: 2:1:1-bays; recessed entrance bay 3rd from left with 2-centred-arched doorway with 6-panel door flanked by 2 small pointed casement windows; hood-mould and deep hood over doorway. Rear has arched stair sash. INTERIOR: mid-late C19 detail where inspected: panelled doors, moulded plaster ceiling cornices with bands, and open-well, open-string staircase with turned balusters. (Information from owner).
Listing NGR: SW8008932347