More information : (SX 14636056) Boconnoc [NAT] (1)
Boconnoc House, Grade II*,
County House, presently unoccupied, C16/17, home of the Mohun family, extended after 1719 for Thomas Pitt, Governor of Madras, and in
1772 a south (picture gallery) wing added by the amateur owner
Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford in association with Charles Rawlinson (carpenter and joiner, Lostwithiel): reputed to have been repaired by Sir John Soane. Some 19th century and 20 century additions,
The house is sited with similar relationship to Parish Church as
Landydrock. Soan's repairs have not been identified. The south projecting wing appears once to have extended further to the east.
Garrets, roofs and north block not inspected.
Source: N Pevsner & E Radcliffe Buildings of England Cornwall,
1970; D Stroud The Architecture of Sir John Soane; H Colvin
Dictionary of English Architects, 2nd ed.
SX 16 SW BOCONNOC BOCONNOC PARK
3/12 Courtyard, estate buildings and
- attached gate piers to north of
Boconnoc House and Parish Church
GV II
Stables and carriage sheds forming courtyard buildings to north of
Boconnoc House, now used as garages and offices. Comprising west
block with bellcote and clock tower, south-east block, east block
continuing north of church, and north-east block containing farm
manager's office. Also gate piers on north, south and east. Excluding
estates office, block in south-east corner used as garage an
rebuilt block on east now used as stables. Circa C18 and mid-C19
with C20 alterations. Rubble stone with rag slate roofs.
Buildings together form square around courtyard with block on east
with projecting wing.
West range: E-shaped plan, 1 1/2 storeys, almost symmetrical.
Hipped ends to projecting wings on north and south with gabled
central wing surmounted by belfry and clock tower. Ground floor
openings consisting of inserted double timber garage doors, circa
1950's. Diocletion windows in north and south wings. Full dormer windows with hipped slate roofs, flanking central wing. Horizontal
pivoting C19 timber casements with glazing bars. Further light
with pyramid roof in ridge.
To rear, slate hung central gabled wing with semi-circular opening
on first floor, partly blocked.
Gate piers attached on north and south. Rubble stone with granite pyramidal caps. South wing: rubble stone wall with round arched arcade, now blocked with later timber doors inserted. Lean-to structure to rear.
East range: comprises two 2 storey blocks with hipped slate
roofs. Symmetrical in outline. Round arched openings partly
blocked.
Casement windows with glazing bars at first floor. Dormer windows
near ridge. Between these buildings, pair of rubblestone gate piers
with granite pyramidal caps.
South block of east range L-shaped and continues eastwards to
north of church. On south side, reused medieval arches set in rubble
wall. Probably from earlier medieval house at Boconnoc. North
side asymmetrical, 2 storeys with 3 partly blocked windows under rubble stone arches on left and two 2 light casements with glazing
bars on right. Double doors near centre. Blocked round arched
opening in east side. (2)
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