Newquay Golf Club

NEWQUAY TOWER ROAD, Newquay SW 8061-8161 16/141 Newquay Golf Club - II

House, now golf club. 1835, with C20 alterations and additions. Probably stone rubble, stuccoed. Roof behind parapet. Plan: Circular 3-storey tower, with single storey wing to right, which may originally have been the chapel. There is a block set back to left, with a stair turret set in the angle to right. Exterior: The tower has an embattled parapet, 3-storey, with integral stair turret; 3-light window at each storey, with round porch with panelled door to front. The single storey wing to right has two cusped lancets and C20 window to left. The block to left is 2-storey, with embattled parapet; 2 single windows at ground floor and one at first floor, with hood moulds; the left side has door and window at ground floor and 3 windows at first floor. Later C19 wing to rear left with hipped roof, of 2 storeys, with 2 windows at ground and first floor, all with hood moulds and C20 glazing. The rear has C20 additions. There is an oval-shaped stack to the right side of the tower, and a rectangular stack to rear of the block to left. Interior: Retains a newel stair leading from ground floor to basement inside the central tower, with cast iron balustrade. The tower was formerly the Molesworth family house; they were one of the leading Roman Catholic families of Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW8046861880