Cleggan House

Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1855, with projecting gabled end bays to front with lean-to verandah between, slightly advanced end bays to rear, enclosed courtyard to west, and recent uPVC conservatory to rear. Three-bay side elevations, south-east having one blocked window opening. Pitched slate roofs with decorative bracketed eaves to gables, slate roof to verandah, rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Exposed coursed rubble limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins and plinth with vents below latter with metal louvers. Chamfered timber posts to verandah with tooled limestone plinths and timber spandrels to roof. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone lintels and surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Blocked window opening to south-east elevation. Square-headed door openings with tooled limestone lintels and surrounds. Limestone steps and timber panelled door with overlight to front. Courtyard comprises L-plan two-bay single-storey former stable block with lean-to slate roof, replacement uPVC rainwater goods and rubble stone walls, square-headed openings having tooled limestone lintels and sills, red-brick surrounds and replacement uPVC windows, and having timber glazed door to front. Segmental-arched gateway to yard with rubbed red-brick voussoirs and jambs. Rubble stone boundary walls with tooled limestone piers with tooled limestone capping and wrought-iron gates. Farmyard with associated buildings to north-east.

This house overlooks Cleggan Bay and was built by Frederick Twining whose family is synonymous with a brand of tea and whose descendents still occupy the house. The timber verandah is a notale feature and the house is enhanced by the good-quality dressings to the door and window openings. Farming, of great importance to the demesne, necessitated the substantial farmyard nearby.