Bowden Derra

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LEWANNICK Bowden Derra

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House, now used as home for people with learning disabilities. 1866 (datestone). Snecked Polyphant and local stone. Steeply pitched slate roof with gable ends. Lateral, axial and end stacks of snecked stone.

Plan: Overall 'L' shaped plan. Entrance to left of centre, the left hand room heated by a front lateral stack and the entrance hall and room to right probably sharing an axial stack. The wing to front right contains a second entrance and stair hall and the service rooms are accommodated beyond to right. The parallel range to rear contains principal rooms overlooking the garden. High Victorian Gothic style.

Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical front elevation, the entrance to left of centre through a single storey porch with four-centred arch and datestone in the spandrels. Projecting lateral stack to left and three-light mullion and transom window lighting entrance hall to right. Four-centred relieving arch with three-light mullion window beyond first floor with one-light, two-light mullion window and three-light mullion and transom window. The wing to front right has an asymmetrically placed projecting stack on the gable end with an asymmetrically placed four-centred arch to the second entrance, at the base of the projection. The lower two-storey service range beyond has a bellcote on the ridge. The garden front is more regular. Two storeys with gable ends to cross wings set slightly forward to left and right. Central six-light mullion and transom window with two-light and one-light mullion window above. The left hand gable has a four-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor with a three-light mullion and transom window above and a quatrefoil in the gable end. To right, similar windows but of five-lights on the ground floor and with a ventilation slit in the gable end. To front, the garden has steep C19 terraces partly rebuilt in the C20.

Interior: Original carpentry and joinery with stair, doors and doorframes, chamfered two-centred Polyphant stone arches in the corridors and some chimney-pieces.

Only partially inspected inside.

Listing NGR: SX2576881815