Crugsillick

SW 93 NW VERYAN

8/111 Crugsillick (formerly listed as - Crugsillick Manor) 30-5-67 GV II*

Country house. C17, remodelled and extended circa 1710. Slatestone rubble with Delabole dry slate hipped roofs except gable ends to front wings. Brick and stone lateral and gable stacks. U-shaped plan of central hall, room to each end with 2 wings projecting either end of east (entrance) front. Parlour in north-east wing; kitchen in other wing with further extension from it southbound. Rear of hall block has 2 near identical hipped projections, that to the north containing the principal staircase. 2 storeys. 3 window symmetrical east hall front flanked by 2 window wings. Central 6 panel door with overlight, 12 pane sashes with some crown glass, flat slatestone arches and moulded eaves cornice. Parlour and hall front circa 1710, kitchen wing is older with eaves and gable end heightened circa 1710. Parlour gable end is blind with some rebuilding to gable and a tie plate. 12 pane sash to right of kitchen gable first floor in original opening with timber lintel. Wing at lower level adjoining gable to left is probably C17 but later addition. 2 windows to ground and first floor in original openings with wooden lintels. 8 paned fixed lights to ground floor and 16 pane sash to left-hand first floor and 12 pane sash to extreme right. Rear of hall block has 16 pane first floor sash window at left-hand end with long C19 sash window of 2 large horizontal panes with margin panes per sash lighting staircase; lateral stack between this and slightly shorter projection to right which was partly rebuilt C19. Further lateral stack rebuilt C19 to right. Interior has much surviving from circa 1710 with moulded plaster ceiling cornices to many rooms including hall and parlour. The latter has fine double heart with fleurs de lys design. Ceiling over stairs has modillion cornice. Dogleg stair with turned balusters over closed string and pulvinated frieze. Parlour retains fielded panelling to east fireplace wall with 2 rounded niches with shell-moulded half-domes and scalloped shelves. Eared fireplace surround is insertion of mid C18. Fielded panelled window shutters. Small room to south of hall has dado with fielded panels and complete panelled south wall including window shutters. 2 panelled doors survive to most rooms. Two C17, 2 panelled doors with moulded stiles and rails survive, one in stopped ovolo moulded frame to first floor room of rear wing. Second stair in south wing is dogleg with barleysugar splat balusters and may also be C17. Pegged, collared roof structure of circa 1710 throughout. Crugsillick was the home of the Kempe family including Arthur Kempe who was Admiral of the Red Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet and assisted at the Battle of Quebec in 1759.

Listing NGR: SW9284340466