Clinton House

Clinton House is a house that is part of a terrace, built around the early 18th century. It features a stuccoed front with a plinth and a moulded coved eaves cornice, along with slate sills. The roof is steep and covered with dry scantle slate, and it has two raking dormers. There is a brick chimney on the left party wall, which it shares with No 30. The layout includes a large reception room on the left, which has been subdivided, and a passage on the right that leads to a later service room. There is an original stair turret located at the rear left. The house has two storeys plus an attic over a basement, and the west road front has a regular four-window arrangement with 12-pane hornless sashes. The doorway is located in the fourth opening from the left on the ground floor, featuring a six-panel door within a wooden doorcase that has consoles supporting a simple entablature. In front of the doorway, there is a flight of four granite steps with a wrought iron handrail that is wreathed and ramped over square balusters. The interior has not been inspected. The front of the house has a cobbled pavement. Robert Hunt, a mineralogist and scientific writer, lived here. He was a lecturer on mechanical science at the Royal School of Mines and a member of the Royal Society. After his death, a museum in Redruth was named after him, although it no longer exists. Clinton House is part of a fine group of 18th-century houses.