Penpoll Farmhouse

Penpoll Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the mid-18th century. It is constructed of rubble, cob, and brick on the first floor of the rear wing, with corrugated iron cladding on the front. The building has scantle slate roofs and brick chimneys over the gable ends, with an external breast on the left (east) side. The layout consists of two rooms, both featuring large but partly blocked hearths, with the hall or kitchen likely located in the right-hand room. A central stair hall separates the two rooms.

A service wing was added to the rear of the right-hand room in the early to mid-19th century, which includes a large kitchen on the right and a small pantry on the left, located at the back of the stair. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical three-window front on the north side, with a doorway and a window slightly off-centre to the right. The door is a 20th-century top-glazed design. The wider ground floor window on the right retains its original 24-pane, two-light casement with wide glazing bars and internal ovolo-mouldings, while the other windows are late 19th to early 20th-century eight-pane, two-light casements. The rear wing features various sizes of late 19th-century casements, but the original wooden lattice ventilator remains intact in the larder.

Inside, the 18th-century part of the farmhouse is virtually complete, showcasing two-panel doors with fielded panels and HL hinges, pine muntin and plank partitions, and a particularly interesting closed-string dog-leg stair. This stair features a column on a vase-turned baluster, a ramped moulded handrail, turned newel caps, and a segmental arch under the landing balustrade with turned pendants beneath the newels. Penpoll Farmhouse is an intriguing 18th-century house, especially notable for its well-preserved features from that period.