Newham Villa

TRURO

SW84SW NEWHAM ROAD 880-1/2/205 Newham Villa 19/06/73

II

House. C17, remodelled early C19. Rendered walls except for slatehanging to first floor of right-hand wall of rear wing. Hipped asbestos slate roof except for grouted scantle slate over small lean-to at rear; brick stack on right. Originally a T-shaped plan, extended early C19 with parallel rear wing on the right. 2 storeys; 2-window-range front. Early C19 sixteen-pane hornless sashes over C20 bay windows in wider openings and central datestone inscribed P H A 1687 over doorway with C20 panelled door within early C19 panelled reveals and a later C19 wooden latticed porch with round-arched doorway. Right-hand side wall has 3 early C19 twelve-pane sashes and one C20 horned copy to first-floor left. Late C18 planked door with wooden latch in angle to original rear wing. Gothic style 2-light mullioned window to rear lean-to. INTERIOR: C17 chamfered ceiling joists to front rooms; (boarded under to left-hand room); plank and muntin partitions to either side of central through passage; late C18 dogleg staircase with stick balusters; C18 two-panel door to stair cupboard; elliptical arch to rear of right-hand front room and early C19 turned mahogany fragment from former Red Lion in Truro, reused as newel post to short flight of steps from half-landing into chamber of early C19 wing.

Listing NGR: SW8312143734