The Gew Including Walls, Gate-Piers And Gates At Road Front

The Gew is a house dating from around the mid-19th century, significantly rebuilt in the late 19th century and extended in the 20th century. It retains a small section of the original building and some of the original walls. The original section is stuccoed, while the remainder is constructed of dressed granite with elvan and granite dressings. The roof is dry Delabole slate, with gables, a quarter-hipped section, polygonal ends, projecting eaves, a ridgeline of crested clay tiles, and one hip finial.

The house is arranged with an irregular double-depth plan. A projecting cross wing, the original section, is located on the right. The entrance hall is in the front of a shallower cross wing, and an axial range extends to the rear with a projecting wing on the left and a 20th-century extension on the right.

The south-east front, which faces the road, features the projecting stuccoed original wing and a gable-ended cross wing rebuilt in the late 19th century. The original wing has original 12-pane hornless sash windows on the ground floor, with horned replacements above. A late 19th-century glazed porch with marginal panes and diamond-pierced bargeboards shelters the 4-panel front door. The south-west garden front, like the other late 19th-century fronts, includes a plinth and a mid-floor band. A projecting gable on the left has a three-story canted bay window, and the section set back on the right has a trellised balcony in front of the first-floor window. The windows on this and other late 19th-century elevations are 12-pane horned sashes. The rear has a regular four-window garden front.

The interior has not been inspected. The front roadside walls are of granite rubble with rock-faced copings, and a dressed granite name plaque is set into the wall. A wide gateway on the right has rock-faced granite, monolithic piers, and an original wooden gate with arched and cross bracing.