Penwethers Farmhouse

Penwethers Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1831 for Michael Dunstan. It features walls made of killas rubble with slate sills, shallow brick arches, and freestone keystones. The roof is a half-hipped design covered with slurried scantle slate and has brick chimneys on the side walls. The layout includes two equal reception rooms on either side of a central vestibule passage, which leads to a small central stair hall situated between narrower rear service rooms. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window south front, with a central round-headed brick arched doorway that has the date and builder's initials inscribed on the keystone. The doorway features a circa early 20th century ledged door with a blind fanlight above, which was probably originally glazed. The windows are late 19th to early 20th century four-pane sashes. The interior remains largely unaltered, showcasing the original L-shaped staircase with stick balusters and turned newels, four-panel doors, and a moulded ceiling cornice and band in the left-hand room (parlour). The right-hand room (living room) has moulded ceiling beams, and there is a bread oven in the back kitchen. Despite the later sashes, the house is very complete and particularly interesting due to its building date and the initials of the builder.