Newham Villa

Newham Villa is a house that dates back to the 17th century and was remodeled in the early 19th century. The building features rendered walls, except for slate hanging on the first floor of the right-hand wall of the rear wing. It has a hipped asbestos slate roof, with grouted scantle slate covering a small lean-to at the rear, and a brick stack on the right. Originally designed in a T-shaped plan, it was extended in the early 19th century with a parallel rear wing on the right.

The house is two storeys high and has a two-window-range front. The early 19th-century façade includes sixteen-pane hornless sash windows above 20th-century bay windows in wider openings. A central datestone inscribed "P H A 1687" is located above the doorway, which features a 20th-century panelled door set within early 19th-century panelled reveals. A later 19th-century wooden latticed porch with a round-arched doorway is also present. The right-hand side wall has three early 19th-century twelve-pane sashes and one 20th-century horned copy on the first floor to the left. There is a late 18th-century planked door with a wooden latch at the angle to the original rear wing, and a Gothic style two-light mullioned window in the rear lean-to.

Inside, the front rooms have 17th-century chamfered ceiling joists, with the left-hand room being boarded underneath. Plank and muntin partitions are found on either side of the central through passage. A late 18th-century dogleg staircase with stick balusters leads to the upper floor, and there is an 18th-century two-panel door to the stair cupboard. An elliptical arch is located at the rear of the right-hand front room, and an early 19th-century turned mahogany fragment from the former Red Lion in Truro has been reused as a newel post for the short flight of steps from the half-landing into the chamber of the early 19th-century wing.