Glastan House

SW 72 SW MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE MAWGAN

4/160 Glastan House

GV II

Vicarage, now private house. 1805, remodelled slightly circa 1900. Shale rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones, voussoirs, lintels, bonding stones and moulded eaves cornice of former parapets, front and rear. Fairly steep dry Delabole slate roof with axial brick chimneys over the 2 cross walls. Double depth plan with originally 3 reception rooms to garden front (south east), small study and entrance hall behind right hand room, large stair hall right of middle behind central principal wider reception room and 2 service rooms flanking service stair which is central to the rear left hand side of the house. Two storeys over basement plus attic. Originally symmetrical 4-window south-east front with central 2 windows closer grouped. Round-headed openings to left and right of basement and to central roof dormer with open pediment coping surviving from former parapet. Basement openings all with circa 1900 French windows; canted bay window with plate glass sashes to 1st floor right. The other ground and 1st floor openings, all with flat arches, have their original 16-pane hornless sashes with much crown glass. Rear entrance elevation is unaltered, with 3 first floor windows and 2 round-headed mid-floor windows between. The wider and taller principal stair window is left of middle and the service stair window is the central feature of a symmetrical grouping at the right hand side with flanking ground and 1st floor windows. All the windows are original hornless sashes with glazing bars and much crown glass. The doorway is towards the left; original 4 panel door and overlight and distyle porch with square-on-plan columns. Interior partly inspected: Original principal open-well, open-string stair with stick balusters and mahogany handrail over turned newel: 6 panel doors; moulded plaster ceiling cornice and band to right hand room and an eared C18 chimney-piece, resited (from Wales). An unusual house, both in its plan and elevations, purpose built as a vicarage and with symmetry as a secondary consideration. Some remodelling circa 1900 but still fairly complete.

Listing NGR: SW7099424948