Kitchen, Treverbyn Vean, St Neot, Cornwall
Category
Photographs
Date
1855 (circa)
Materials
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890166.4
Summary
A close-up photograph of a two-storey building with very varied roof heights and directions. Two doorways and two windows visible. Large chimney on end of wall in foreground with four other chimneys visible. Rough track in foreground with piles of rubble and pipes by building. Contained in a very large dark brown leather photograph album with gold tooling on front, back and on spine and 'Charles Lygon-Cocks / Hys / Photographs' in gold on front cover.
Provenance
Col. Charles Lygon Somers Cocks was related to the Agar-Robartes through the Carew Pole family. He commissioned George Gilbert Scott to design his house, Treverbyn Vean, St. Neot, and William Burges to design the interiors.