Pixie House To West Of Lower Penpethy

TINTAGEL SX 08 NE Pixie House to west of Lower 4/165 Penpethy II Shop, possibly built as cottage. Probably late C19. Slate stone rubble. Scantle slate roof with semi-conical hipped end on left and hipped end on right with gable end to porch. Projecting front lateral stone rubble stack. Very small 1 room plan with entrance through gabled porch on right and rounded left end. Heated by a front lateral stack. Single storey. Picturesque asymmetrical front elevation with low slate roof with semi-conical hipped end on left and gabled open-fronted porch on right slightly to right of centre of front a large lateral stack with wide set-offs, the shaft with slated weathering at top. 2 narrow window openings flank the stack, the left hand half dormer window with a gabled roof. Narrow window opening in left hand side wall. Interior has segmental arched slate lintel to the fireplace and an exposed collar rafter roof. A board inside the porch states that this house, traditionally built for the piskies in the C19, was formerly inhabited by an old woman.

Listing NGR: SX0819186214