Extract from the 1908 OS map; showing what the Recreation Grounds used to be like; Rosevean House 1837 now a vet. All a bit different from the place we know now.
Rosevean Road was originally set out as a drive to Lescudjack Castle, and was started in 1835 but came to nothing; Penare was added in 1838, by John Barwis (teacher son of Benjamin Barwis, from Cumberland, of the Penryn Bellevue Academy) and it was named The Barwis Academy; his wife died there in 1839. Barwis Hill is named after John Barwis, Head of the Academy. Rosevean Road and Bellevue Terrace were also built by the Barwis family, around 1845-7.
Lescudjack House, built c1854 for Thomas Coulson, Timber Merchant; much of the same style as Rosevean House; the house was bought by Robert Hallowell Carew, Adjutant of the Western Battalion Rifle Volunteers c1863; contrary to other reports of it having been demolished late 19th century it was still on the OS map 1908, and the 1936 map shows Treassowe Road and Peverell Road.
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