Braganza House

Braganza House is a substantial house located within its own grounds in the village of St Mawes, dating from around 1830, with a later 19th-century rear service wing. The exterior features incised stucco with dry Delabole slate hipped roofs and axial brick stacks. The house has a two-room, central stair, and rear passage plan, along with a small original rear wing to the right of the stair, a later wing beyond, and a double depth bay to the right, plus a single-storey room at the rear of the passage.

It stands two storeys high with a south front that has a symmetrical arrangement of bays: 1:1:1+1. The façade includes a plinth, string course, moulded cornice, and a plain parapet. Panelled piers are divided by a string course, with the first-floor piers featuring consoles above. The first three bays, including a full-height semi-circular projection in the central bay, have round-headed, moulded architraves set in recesses, with hoodmoulds that have lion's head stops. The original sashes feature round-headed fanlights and traceried glazing bars, with the central sash being taller and one above the bowed section having curved glass. The right bay is recessed and has a moulded window architrave. All first-floor windows have moulded architraves with corner blocks, and all sills are supported by pairs of shell consoles. Except for a 20-pane hornless sash on the ground floor of the second bay, all windows are original 16-pane hornless sashes.

At the rear, there is a semi-circular stair projection with an original bowed round-headed sash featuring curved glass. The west entrance front has a doorway on the left with an original panelled door and fanlight with intersecting glazing. A Doric-like porch with guttae and slender columns is present, along with a 16-pane sash above and to the left of the door in the single-storey wing. A round-headed window to the right is blind, as is the window above it, but otherwise, the detailing is similar to that of the south front.

The interior of Braganza House is virtually intact, showcasing an original geometric staircase with a wreathed mahogany handrail and stick balusters with plinths, mahogany panelled doors, moulded architraves, panelled reveals, and moulded plaster ceiling cornices and bands, one of which features fluting, along with some original chimney pieces.