Bar Lodge And Forecourt Steps And Walls

HELSTON

SW62NW PENROSE HILL 631-1/1/199 Bar Lodge and forecourt steps and walls

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Beach house. Datestone 1895. By George H Fellowes-Prynne. For John Peverell Rogers. Roughly-coursed killas with granite dressings including plinth, quoins, chamfered eaves cornice, chimney weatherings, stepped gable coping, double kneeler, doorway and mullioned windows; dry Delabole slate L-plan roof, hipped on the right; external lateral stacks on left and tall stack rising high above single-storey part on right; original cast-iron gutters and square downpipes. Overall irregular square plan with 2-storey range on the left and single-storey range with roof terrace (an early example) on the right with pavilion to 1st floor at the rear; large rear porch and canted 1st-floor porch to roof terrace. Arts and Crafts style, mostly Jacobethan influenced. Irregular elevations. Seaward front with transomed windows. 2-storey gable end on the left with inscription over gable ventilator with initials JPR (John Peverell Rogers) and MA (Maria Adelaida his wife, nee Millord, daughter of Italian Consul at Queenstown County Cork) over 3-light window over canted bay with ashlar mullions and slate roof. Slightly set back on the right is a single-storey wing with chamfered doorway on the left with leaded hood on moulded granite corbel; pair of glazed doors, 2-light windows right of doorway and semicircular-on-plan 5-light windows clasping the corner, moulded cornice over, also to right-hand return, surmounted by turned balustrade. Rear has elliptically-arched doorway to porch and pair of glazed and panelled doors. Windows have horned sashes with glazing bars and small-paned toplights (front only). The pavilion roof is carried on slender turned wooden columns with spandrel braces. INTERIOR: geometric tiled floor to entrance hall; some parquet floors; 6-panel and 4-panel doors; staircase with turned newels and balusters and mahogany handrail and iron grate to each chamber. Subsidiary features: raised forecourt, bowed-on-plan in front of gable end, approached by granite steps from either side and with heavy turned balustrade with moulded handrail and ball finials over drum newels. (National Trust Vernacular Buildings Historical Survey: 1986-; Squires S: Penrose Historic Survey: 1986-).

Listing NGR: SW6411124317