Nansloe And Attached Kitchen Garden Walls

Nansloe is an early 18th-century country house, significantly remodelled and extended in 1900 by HMR Blue. It is located off Meneage Road in Helston. The front of the house is constructed of elvan ashlar, featuring flat arches to the ground floor, and has a coved and moulded eaves cornice dating to 1900. The roof is covered with Delabole slate at the front, scantle slate to the rear outshut, and asbestos slate to the rear wing. Stacks are stuccoed with moulded cornices, with end stacks to the original front range and an axial stack to the rear wing.

The house originally had an L-shaped plan, likely with a former stair projection in the rear angle, with a cross wing projecting to the front and rear on the right side, added in 1900. The front façade is symmetrical, consisting of five bays from the 18th century and one bay from the 1900 addition. The windows are mostly horned sashes: the 18th-century section has 5x8-pane sashes on the ground floor, with 4-pane sashes above; the cross wing features 3-light transomed windows with similar sash windows. The rear of the house includes an entrance porch to the cross wing, with a 9-panel door and a spoked fanlight. A tall transomed stair window is visible in the outshut to the right of the cross wing, with round-arched lights. The inner elevation of the rear wing has a twelve-pane hornless sash window on the left, and a tripartite sash with glazing bars on the right. Later horned sashes are found on the ground floor, and a central doorway has a glazed and panelled door.

The interior of the original front rooms retains early 18th-century six-panel doors with fielded panels, along with early 19th-century moulded and carved cornices and bands; the left-hand room has egg and dart and arabesque detailing. The remainder of the house, including carpentry, joinery, and plasterwork, dates to 1900. Features include bolection-moulded dado panelling to the entrance and stair hall, an open-well open-string staircase with square column balusters, panelled doors, and moulded plaster ceiling cornices.

Attached to the house are kitchen garden walls constructed of local rubble with scantle slate copings.