Penvearne Farmhouse

SW 62 SE CURY 3/15 Penvearne Farmhouse

• II

Farmhouse. C17, remodelled and extended C18 and re-roofed in the C19. Shale rubble and cob walls, timber lintels and some granite. Grouted scantle slate roof with brick chimneys over 2 gable ends and over 2 cross walls. Half-hipped outshut roof over rear wings. Present plan: irregular L-shape, plus pair of parallel 1-room 2-storey service wings at rear right. Main range is original C17 3-room house on right and 2 room circa early C19 house added to left, (one room now incorporated into main house) and further circa late added to left, 2-room house added in front of right-hand room of, and at right angles to original house. Probably originally a 3-room and through passage plan with hall and inner room, left, and lower room, right, with integral service wing behind both hall and lower room, making 5 rooms in all. 2 storeys. Overall slightly irregular 5-window south front with gable end of projecting wing at right; 2-window front of circa early C19 house, left; and 3-window front of original house, middle. This 3-window part, remodelled in the C18 and eaves heightened in the C19 is the higher end (ie the hall and inner room) of the original house with the lower end front obscured by the wing. Present doorway within circa early C20 glass porch between ground floor left and middle windows. Middle window with 8-pane horned sash possibly in position of C18 doorway. Ground floor windows left and right are C18 fixed lights with intersecting traceried heads; both with wide glazing bars and some original crown glass. Left-hand window has internal ovolo- moulding and right-hand window is chamfered. Straight joint between ground floor middle and right-hand window. Circa early C19 16-pane hornless sashes to first floor flanking gable of porch and C20 window at far right near angle with wing. Rear has good cob texture of the pair of wings (re-roofed under one roof in the C19). Each wing originally had a ground and first floor window probably identical to the surviving 2-light oak mullioned window with blocked lights to first floor left. Ground floor left-hand window now doorway and later windows to right-hand wing in slightly altered openings. Back doorway was probably originally between the wings but now blocked. Interior has C19 or C20 carpentry and joinery except for remains of large hearth with chamfered oak lintel and chamfered and stopped granite jamb visible in east wall of rear wing. Although much remodelled in the C18 and C19, this is a fascinating house; curious for its plan with a pair of identical service wings, and remarkable for its surviving C17 oak mullioned window at the rear and the 2 C18 windows with Gothic tracery to the front, possibly unique in Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW6877721823