Enys House Including Adjoining Service Wing, Clocktower, Walls And Gate Piers

Enys House is a country house with an adjoining service wing, clocktower, walls, and gate piers, dating back to the 18th century with a significant rebuilding around 1840. It was formerly the home of the Enys family. The main house is constructed of granite ashlar, while the earlier service wing is of granite and killas rubble with elvan arches, later stuccoed, with sections where the stucco has fallen. All have dry Delabole slate hipped roofs behind stone parapets. Brick axial stacks, some stuccoed, rise from the cross and axial walls, topped with moulded cornices.

The house has a large layout incorporating two nearly square blocks and a single-storey service wing, with a clocktower and walls and gate piers adjoining the service wing. The house’s deeper plan features an entrance porch and vestibule leading to a very large stair hall, which provides access to rooms on all sides. To the right, the house is three rooms deep, while the stair hall connects to an axial passage running alongside the shallower plan, double-pile service range to the left.

The west-facing front has a regular four-window arrangement of the 18th-century service wing, set back on the left, and a symmetrical three-window arrangement for the house on the right. The house's central doorway is recessed and features a dressed granite porch with paired square columns and a moulded entablature, housing a six-panel door with an overlight. The windows are hornless 12-pane sashes, with the ground floor windows being taller. The service wing has a recessed entrance porch with a round-headed doorway and a six-panel door. The south garden front has a 1:4:1 bay arrangement, with the central bays recessed, and a similar 1:3:1 bay arrangement on the rear (east) garden front. The rear of the service wing mirrors its front.

A late 19th-century three-stage granite clocktower, built in Italianate style, is located adjacent to the service wing. Wide dressed stone gate piers have moulded caps, surmounted by ramped pyramids with ball finials.

The interior of the 18th-century service wing retains a dog-leg staircase with a closed string and turned balusters. The house retains many original features, including panelled doors and reveals, panelled window shutters, some chimney-pieces, and moulded plaster ceiling cornices. The staircase is likely a later 19th-century addition or a remodeling of an earlier staircase.