Roundwood Farmhouse

Roundwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating to around the early 19th century, although it may have been designed to evoke an older style or remodelled from an earlier building. It was built for R.A. Daniell and is constructed of painted slatestone rubble with a tiled roof. The roof has brick chimneys at the gable ends and a prominent external stone stack on the front. The original plan comprised a three-room through passage, with a central room heated by the front stack and end rooms heated by gable-end stacks. A single-room addition was added to each end in the 20th century.

The east front, overlooking Cowlands Creek, has four windows to the first floor directly above the ground floor openings. A 20th-century bowed porch with curved panes to the sidelights sits in front of the original doorway, located in the second opening from the left. A lateral stack is positioned between the third and fourth windows. The first-floor windows are early 19th-century tripartite casements with 12-pane side opening lights and four-paned sidelights, mostly retaining original crown glass. The ground floor windows are later 12-pane, two-light casements.

The interior retains original early 19th-century four-panel doors leading to the first-floor rooms. A reference in The West Briton of 31st July 1818 describes a dinner party hosted by R.A. Daniell for a large group of people from Truro at his newly built “beautiful cottage”. It is said that Thomas Daniell, who remodelled Trelissick House around 1825, lost Trelissick to Lord Falmouth due to gambling and subsequently resided at Roundwood. Although the Trelissick Estate was sold to Lord Falmouth in 1832 and Daniell emigrated in the same year, the house, quay and nine acres of land were advertised for rent by Lord Falmouth in the West Briton also in 1832.