Roseland House And Garden Wall To West And North. Railing To West

Roseland House, built around 1780, is a house with a garden wall and railings located in Menheniot. The house is constructed of rubblestone with cut stone arches over all openings and features a slate roof with hipped ends. It has rubblestone slate-hung stacks on the slope of the hips. The building is two rooms deep with a central hall and staircase at the rear of a cross passage. It stands two storeys high and has a symmetrical five-window front, consisting of a central three-window range flanked by two-storey lean-to wings that continue under the slope of the hipped roof.

On the ground floor, there are two tripartite sash windows without horns on either side of a round cut stone arch that leads to the entrance, which features a six-panelled door with a fanlight above, adorned with radiating glazing bars. The first floor has three 12-pane sash windows without horns, each with delicate wrought iron balconies. The flanking wings contain 2-light casements with glazing bars on the left-hand window and 16-pane sashes above. Inside, the staircase has a ramped curved rail and a closed string.

The front (west) features a low rubblestone wall topped with wrought iron railings, which have uprights decorated with finials and main verticals surmounted by lanterns. There is also a wrought iron gate. The rubblestone wall continues to the north at a raised height and includes an engraved slate tablet that reads, 'Captn Lapenotiere's wall by', although the lower part is broken. The house was home to the Lapenotiere family from before 1805. Lieutenant Lapenotiere, who commanded the Pickle Schooner, famously brought the news of the victory at Trafalgar to the Admiralty via Falmouth. A sugar sifter presented by King George III to Lapenotiere is now part of the Liskeard plate.