Little Beside House

Little Beside House is a country manor house located in Gwennap, dating from the early 19th century, with extensions added in the early to mid-19th century. The building is constructed of stucco and features slurried scantle slate roofs, with a parapet at the front and brick chimneys at the gable ends. The layout consists of two main rooms with a central stair hall, and it has been extended at both ends with one-room wings; the left-hand (southeast) wing was originally single-storey but was later raised to create a first floor. There is a long central rear service wing, along with another wing at a right angle to the southeast, which encloses a rear courtyard.

The house is two storeys high and has a northeast front with a 1:3:1 bay arrangement. The two-storey wing is on the left, while the one-storey wing is on the right. The central part of the original structure, which is nearly symmetrical, is slightly set forward and features a plinth, a mid-floor string, a moulded stucco parapet cornice, and flanking rusticated quoin strips. The original windows are hornless 12-pane sashes made with crown glass, set on slate sills. The nearly central doorway is framed by a part-glazed porch with arched lights and paired consoles beneath a cornice, leading to a pair of part-glazed doors with arched lights. Each flanking wing has original Gothic sashes with glazing bars, and the left-hand wing includes a string under the sill and a moulded eaves cornice.

The rear of the house is partly slate-hung, and the wing parallel to the main front features 16-pane horizontal sliding sashes. Inside, the original part of the house is very well preserved, particularly the large stair hall and adjoining reception rooms. The stair hall boasts a fine geometric staircase with an open string, moulded treads, scrolled tread ends, and a geometric galleried landing, which is adorned with a Vitruvian scroll frieze and a moulded cornice. The plaster ceiling features an acanthus cornice and a trailing rose band. The left and right rooms have cornices decorated with egg and dart motifs over bead and reel designs, along with moulded ceiling bands, with trailing wine in the left room and anthemion in the right room. The original six-panel doors, architraves, skirtings, and window shutters are also intact. Other areas of the house have not been inspected.