Penpoll Farmhouse

SW 84 SW KEA

2/116 Penpoll Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa mid C18. Rubble, cob and brick to first floor of rear wing and corrugated iron cladding to front. Scantle slate roofs with brick chimneys over gable ends with external breast to left (east). Plan of 2 rooms both with large but partly blocked hearths. Hall/kitchen probably in right-hand room. Central stair hall between. Service wing added to rear of right- hand room circa early-mid C19 consisting of large kitchen to right and small pantry, left, to rear of stair. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window north front with doorway and window over slightly off-centre to right. C20 top-glazed door. Wider ground floor right-hand window opening has original 24-pane 2-light: casement with wide glazing bars with internal ovolo-mouldings. Other windows are circa late C19 early C20 8-pane 2-light casements. Rear wing has circa late C19 casements of different sizes but original wooden lattice ventilator survives to larder. Interior of C18 part is virtually complete with 2-panel doors with fielded panels and HL hinges, pine muntin and plank partitions and a particularly interesting closed-string dog-leg stair with column on vase turned baluster, ramped moulded handrail, tuned newel caps and segmental arch under landing balustrade with turned pendants under newels. An interesting C18 house particularly notable for its surviving C18 features.

Listing NGR: SW8378442188