Penwarne House

Penwarne House is a country house dating to the late 18th century, with extensions added around the mid-19th century. The main house is stuccoed, with a granite ashlar plinth at the front, and has a dry Delabole slate roof, hipped at the rear with two hipped roof dormers. A stuccoed parapet runs along the front, and the chimney stacks are stuccoed with modillioned cornices. The plan is symmetrical, forming a U-shape and incorporating a lower, one-room-width wing to the right, with 20th-century service rooms behind.

The exterior is two storeys plus a basement, with a five-bay south-east front featuring rusticated stucco quoins, dentilled moulded parapet cornices, and an ashlar plinth. The central bay projects forward, topped by a triangular pediment. The original six-panel front door, with fielded panels and a fanlight, is set within a distyle Ionic porch with an open triangular pediment, approached by five granite steps. The wing to the right is set back slightly, with a similar parapet and a hipped roof with wide eaves and a central two-light window piercing the parapet. Ground floor windows have moulded jambs with consoles supporting a segmentally-headed pediment; a matching window is present to the right-hand return wall. Original 12-pane hornless sash windows with thin glazing bars are found throughout the front elevation, with internal shutters to the ground floor. Other elevations also retain original windows, including tripartite sashes to the rear wings. A round-headed stair window has marginal panes and may be of a later date. Slatehanging is present on the rear wall between the wings. The rear courtyard features blind windows in the wing walls, with hipped roof dormers above.

Inside, many original 18th and 19th-century features remain, including mahogany panelled doors, original door furniture, plaster ceiling cornices with dentils in the reception rooms, an elliptical archway between the hall and stair hall, and an open-well staircase with a shaped handrail and fluted stick balusters.