Cliff House

House. Circa early 19th century. Designed by Richard Budge, draughtsman of Perran Foundry, and built by John Williams. The front is coursed faced slatestone, otherwise painted rubble, with granite quoins, shallow keyed elvan arches and slate sills. The roof is hipped asbestos slate with wide eaves, sweeping lower to the rear, and rebuilt brick chimneys over the side walls.

The plan is of double depth with 2 equal reception rooms flanking a cross passage (now incorporated into 1 room) leading to a central stair between 2 shallow rear service rooms. A later single storey service wing adjoins to the rear left. The building is partly built into the bank at right for a pantry. It rises to 2 storeys.

The symmetrical 3-window east front has a central doorway with a 20th-century top-glazed door. The windows are original hornless 16-pane sashes except for a copy replacement with horns to the first floor left. The back door was to the left-hand rear room but is now enclosed by an extension. The rear has an unequal 2-light casement to the left-hand (west) room with 9:3 panes.

The interior retains most of its original carpentry and joinery. A dog leg stair with stick balusters and turned newels has replaced the original. There are 6-panel doors throughout, window shutters, and glazed cupboards to niches in the left-hand front room. Moulded beams and the undersides of floorboards are visible. A basket arch separates the former passage and stair. Each first floor front room contains a cast iron hob grate within surrounds with roundels in the corner blocks.

The names of the draughtsman and builder were found written on wood in one of the window seats. This house was the home of the Edwards Brothers, who owned Perran Foundry. It is an early 19th-century house little altered since it was built.