Tranquility

PENRYN

SW73NE Tranquility 580-1/1/2 22/09/71

GV II

Small country house. Early C19. Stucco on rubble with quoin strips; ground floor impost band and mid-floor band; dry slate hipped roof with projecting eaves, axial stacks. Double-depth plan plus service wing at right-angles to rear right. Regency style. 2 storeys over basement; symmetrical 3-bay, 3-window garden front. Half-conical roofed bowed central bay; C20 copy 16-pane hornless sashes with round fanlight heads to ground-floor sashes and late C19 small round-headed windows inserted to sides of central bay. Left-hand return is 2-window front with similar sashes. Rear has original central projecting entrance bay with 16-pane sash over, 6-panel door with moulded panels with corner blocks and spoked fanlight; recessed panels to sides of porch, 12-pane sash to stair hall on left; blind windows to bay set back on right with C20 spoked round window to lower panel and service wing projecting on the left. INTERIOR: virtually complete with fine plasterwork and joinery including: open-well open-string staircase with scrolled tread ends, ramped mahogany handrail and wreathed newel with carved post; doorways with moulded architraves with corner blocks with roundels, 6-panel doors; moulded and carved ceiling bands to entrance hall, stair hall, central reception room and right-hand room; moulded cornice to left-hand room and fanlight between entrance and stair halls. A good example of its type, with an elegant facade.

Listing NGR: SW7825835190