Porthgwidden Clock House And Courtyard And Kitchen Garden Walls

SW 83 NW FEOCK

4/11 Porthgwidden Clock house and courtyard and kitchen garden walls

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Coach-house, stable block, grooms house, courtyard walls and garden walls. Circa 1855 and extended slightly C20. Slatestone rubble with brick arches, quoins and jambs and granite sills. Dry Delabole slate roofs with projecting eaves and verges, pyramidal roof over coach-house surmounted by clock. Central square double depth coach-house with flanking wings of stables to left (north) and grooms cottage to right with further wing at right angles to front right (west) and extended in similar style C20. 2 storey coach-house has rounded-headed coach opening left and original transomed casement window to right in cambered arched opening. Other windows also original and in similar style with small panes. First floor of coach-house has central bay loading doorway with ledged door and dormered gable over. Clock has face to west and east, slate-hung sides, moulded wooden cornice, ramped lead roof surmounted by bellcote with open colonnade, cornice, dome and weather vane. Grooms cottage right has lateral stone stack with brick corners. Interior not inspected. West entrance to courtyard has stone-piers, with plinths, brick corners and pyramidal granite caps with ball finials. Flanking rubble walls have granite copings. North entrance is through round-headed arch with hipped slate coping with wide eaves and exposed rafter ends. Slatestone rubble kitchen garden walls adjoining to east have similar copings.

Listing NGR: SW8212838040