Tinten Manor Farmhouse

Tinten Manor Farmhouse is a house dating from around the late 16th century, with probable rebuilding in the 18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with granite quoins, featuring a slate roof with gable ends, including a lower slate roof to a rear wing. The house has brick end and lateral stacks, including a brick end stack on the left, a brick rear lateral stack, a projecting rendered stone rubble end stack on the right, and a brick end stack to the rear wing.

The original layout is uncertain but the front range likely comprised a three-room plan with a cross or through passage, with the passage entrance to the left of centre. The left-hand room (on the north west) was originally heated by an end stack, the hall by a rear lateral stack, and the right-hand room by a projecting end stack. A stair was inserted into the passage around the mid-19th century, potentially replacing an earlier one, and the partition between the hall and inner room was likely removed around the 19th or 20th century. The rear wing, appearing partly rebuilt, may have origins in the late 16th or early 17th century and incorporates a single room and passage layout, with a room on the north east heated by an end stack and an entrance on the left, leading to a passage which runs parallel to the rear wall of the main range, and providing access to a service outshot added in the 19th century.

The two-storey house has a cellar. The south west front has a regular four-window arrangement with dressed stone arches to the ground floor windows. A wide, large 16-pane hornless sash is on the left, with a dressed round arch leading to the entrance to the left of centre, featuring a fanlight and partly glazed door within a 20th-century glazed porch. Other ground floor windows include a hornless 16-pane sash and a late 19th or early 20th-century tripartite sash to the right. The first floor has a hornless 16-pane sash to the left and three late 19th or 20th-century four-pane sashes. A 20th-century rendered porch is on the right-hand gable end. The rear wing has a lower two-storey range with a blocked opening and a straight joint near the centre of the front elevation, alongside a 20th-century brick porch.

Internally, the partition between the hall and inner room has been removed, and fireplaces altered. A late 16th-century two-ply door with strap hinges terminating in fleur-de-lys leads to the rear wing. The passage beyond has chamfered ceiling beams. The first floor and stair were inaccessible during inspection in 1986.

A Crown lease was assigned to the Bligh family from 1680 until 1817. William Bligh, who accompanied Captain Cook and later became known for the mutiny, was associated with the Bligh family of Tinten, as noted by Polwhele in Biographical Sketches in Cornwall.