Corse House

Alexander Ellis and James Giles, 1863. 2-storey, 5-bay, square-plan Italianate villa with 4-stage belvedere entrance tower to centre and hipped roof. Squared granite rubble, harled white, with granite detailings; margins to openings, quoins, base course, eaves course, dividing bands to wallhead chimney stack and tower.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-stage entrance tower to centre, mullioned bipartite windows to 2nd and semicircular-arched bipartites to3rd stage, dentil-moulded projecting cornice between 3rd and 4th stage, tripartite, semicircular-arched windows to 4th stage, projecting cornice supprorting square-capped roof. Angled, single storey, canted entrance porch to return to left. Advanced double bay to left. Double bay to right with battered wallhead stack to centre.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced 2-storey, canted bay to outer left, advanced single storey, rectangular-plan wing to centre with timber columned porch to right return under oversailing eaves. Slightly advanced double bay to outer right.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: single storey projecting outhouses to outer bays forming courtyard enclosed by wall with pyramidal capped entrance piers.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: Double bay to centre with advanced canted granite bay to centre, 3-light semi-circular-arched windows, balustrade to flat roof. Slightly advanced flanking bays with peinded roofs and semicircular-arched windows to ground floor.

INTERIOR: galleried hall and main reception rooml boasting colonnades of Corinthian columns and entablature. 3 reception rooms to ground floor, 7 bedrooms upstairs.

4-pane sash and case windows. Grey slates, lead flashing, coped ridge stacks.

GATEHOUSE: single storey, 2-bay, L?plan gabled gatehouse. Harled rubble with painted granite margins to openings. Advanced gabled bay to bay to right facing driveway, former entrance bay to left obscured by later addition. Semicircular-arched bipartite windows to gable ends. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters. Lean-to later addition to rear. 4-pane sash and case windows, grey slates, lead flashing.

ENTRANCE PIERS: low, coped rubble quadrant walls terminating in square, pyramidal capped entrance piers