Penhale Farmhouse

OTTERHAM SX 19 SE 3/108 Penhale Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Local stone rubble. Cement-washed rag slate roof with half-hipped end to right and hipped to left continuing down over the former outbuilding. End chimney stacks with rebuilt red brick shafts. Double depth rectangular plan. 2 principal front rooms, the parlour to the right heated from an end stack, and the larger kitchen-hall to the left with direct entry from the central doorway. Shallow rooms in the integral rear outshot; to the right behind the parlour is the dairy; at the centre opposite the front doorway a small stair hall; and to the left behind the kitchen a lobby with a back doorway and another doorway into the integral outbuilding on the left end the full depth of the house and with a loft above. The kitchen fireplace has ovens and backs onto the outbuilding. The outbuilding has been converted into a kitchen and the dairy converted into a bathroom. Added to the back of the rear lobby is a small C20 outshot. 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 2 window range. Early C19 2-light casements, 6 panes per light, the glazing bars missing from the first floor left hand window; ground floor left window to the former kitchen/hall is an early C19 3-light casement, 3 panes per light. Central doorway with early C19 4-panel door and stone rubble open- fronted gabled porch with a slate roof. All the windows have wooden lintels. The integral outbuilding lean-to (now a kitchen) to the left has a large C20 window on the ground floor and a very small window above. At the back a C19 2-light 6-pane stair casement window at the centre; C20 window in the original opening to the dairy to left; and to the right a doorway to the rear lobby with a shallow rectangular fanlight and a wider doorway into the back of the outbuilding to the right; both doorways now within a C20 concrete block outshot. Interior : the interior plan is intact and most of the simple C19 joinery survives including plank doors, the door from the kitchen to stair hall is double hinged plank door, and the simple framed staircase which has chamfered square newels and stick balusters. The fireplaces on the ground floor have C20 grates, that on the left is the former kitchen fireplace with ovens which are now blocked. On the first floor there is a landing at the top of the stairs with doorways to the 4 rooms. The right hand room has a C19 iron fire grate with a simple wooden mantelshelf. This is a good and unspoilt example of a small farmhouse with a most interesting plan.

Listing NGR: SX1665591234