Hendra

Hendra is a house, likely dating from the early 18th century, with extensions added to the left in two phases, probably in the later 18th and early 19th centuries, and further alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of slatestone rubble, with the front and right side rendered, and the rear and left side painted. The roof is half-hipped and covered in slurried slate, with brick stacks at each end.

The house has a three-room plan. The original part of the house is the room to the right, heated by an end stack. This room sits above a cellar, and the house was extended to the left over this same cellar. A central ground-floor room appears to have been unheated and used as a storage space, accessed via an external rear staircase. The left-hand room is also heated by an end stack. The main entrance to the cellar is at the front, and access to the house is from the room on the right. There are 20th-century cellar doors to the left. The front ground floor is elevated, with four 20th-century two-light casement windows; the first floor has three 20th-century two-light casements under the eaves.

The right side of the house has a brick chimney and a curved oven at its base, covered by a pitched slate roof. The left side has a 20th-century two-light casement window at first floor level. The rear elevation displays a straight joint between each room. The right-end room has 20th-century two-light casement windows at ground and first floor levels. The central room has a cellar door and slatestone rubble steps leading to a blocked opening, which was formerly a door with a timber lintel. At ground floor, there’s a small 20th-century two-light casement, and at first floor, a larger 20th-century two-light casement. The left-hand room has a door with a glazed panel and a pitched slurried slate hood, along with a small single-light window to the left. The interior was not accessible during a survey in July 1986.