St Rumon’s Social Club

St Rumon’s Social Club is a house that has been converted into a club, dating from around 1800, with alterations and expansions made over time. It is constructed from granite ashlar and has a slate roof. Originally designed with a square plan, it has been modified by an addition to the rear. The building features two storeys and three bays in a classical style, which was once symmetrical. It has raised quoins and a ground-floor impost band that runs around the structure. The central entrance is a round-headed doorway with a Tuscan architrave that has an open pediment, along with panelled reveals, a recessed door, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars.

To the left of the entrance is a shallow round-headed recess that contains a window with a flat-arched head and keystone, featuring an altered four-pane sash with a ventilator inserted. To the right, there was originally a similar window, but it has been replaced by a late 19th-century canted bay. On the first floor, there are three windows with flat-arched heads and keystones, which are sashed with four panes in the upper section and eight panes in the lower section. The roof is hipped with a shallow pitch and has very prominent eaves supported by paired brackets, with two chimneys visible behind the ridge.

The right-hand return wall, which extends from three bays to four, has round-headed recesses for the ground-floor windows, which are 16-pane sashes. The first-floor windows are similar to those at the front, although the windows in the second bay on both floors are blind. All windows have flat-arched heads with keystones.

The interior has been altered. Historically, the building was constructed before 1825 as a town house known as Trengweath House. By 1851, it was the residence of banker Robert Tweedy, who was associated with the Cornish Bank, which opened a branch in Redruth in 1834. Tweedy managed this branch from 1834 until 1859, after which he and his family relocated to Truro.