Coach House With Attached Screen Walls, Gateway And Retaining Walls Attached To South East Of Lanhydrock House

The coach house, with attached screen walls, gateway, and retaining walls, was built in 1857 as part of the service arrangements for Lanhydrock House. Designed within the office of George Gilbert Scott for Thomas James Agar, the screen walls and retaining walls were likely added in 1882 following a fire at Lanhydrock House, probably under the direction of Richard Coad.

The coach house is constructed in granite ashlar with a slate roof featuring ridge tiles, gable ends with raised coped verges, and scrolled kneelers. The screen walls are also in granite ashlar, while the retaining walls are built from stone rubble and granite dressings. The plan is symmetrical, with the coach house forming a rectangular building with two carriage entrances facing the service yard. It includes a loft above and a canted bay to the rear. The screen wall connects the coach house to Lanhydrock House, featuring two gateways arranged in an L-shape with gateways in each range. A further wall with a gateway leads to the service yard, with retaining walls enclosing the yard along the south and west sides.

The front of the coach house is symmetrical with two central carriage entrances set within segmental arches and topped by a gable with scrolled kneelers. A loading door and clock are also centrally placed. Single doors and mullion and transom windows flank the carriage entrances. The left end features a chamfered granite mullion and transom window, a string course, and a breather. The right end has a two-light chamfered granite window with a string course and breather. The rear of the coach house features a central canted bay with a mullion and transom window and an external stack. Three ventilation slits are located to the right and left. An embattled parapet runs along the entire rear. The interior was not inspected.

The screen walls are approximately 6 metres long and 4 metres high, with an embattled parapet and weathered buttresses. The two gateways have rounded arches, roll mouldings, a hood mould, and a string course, with large panelled studded doors. A low, embattled wall attached to the south end of the coach house incorporates a gateway flanked by square granite piers with plinths, cornices, obelisks, and ball finials. A pedestrian gateway is positioned to the side; both gateways now have 20th-century wooden gates. The tall, battered retaining walls have a granite ashlar embattled parapet, piers with obelisks and ball finials, and continue around the rear of Lanhydrock House. A flight of granite steps with ramped granite coping leads from the south west corner to the upper garden and the Church of St Hydroc. A single-storey range of outhouses with a lean-to roof, double doors, and ventilators adjoins the south side.