Allansford

Allansford is a small house dating from around the mid-18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a rag slate roof with gable ends. There is a stone rubble stack on the left-hand gable end. The house has a two-room layout with a central entrance; the left room is heated by an end stack, while the right room is unheated. Internal partitions on the ground floor have been removed to create one large room, and there is a late 19th-century staircase at the rear of the right room. An early 20th-century outshot is present on the right gable end.

The house stands two storeys high and has an almost symmetrical front with two windows: a two-light casement on the left and a one-light casement on the right, next to a 20th-century rendered lean-to porch with a plank door. The first floor features two two-light casements. Although the windows have been renewed in the 20th century, the small size of the original openings remains unchanged. The left gable wall has been partly rebuilt, including the rounded cloam oven projection at the end stack. There is a corrugated iron lean-to outshot at the rear.

Inside, the ground floor has had its internal partitions altered, and the ceiling beams may have been renewed in the late 19th century. The original fireplace has been blocked by a 20th-century brick fireplace, but the unmoulded granite lintel and jambs of the earlier fireplace are still visible. The roof structure was replaced in the early 20th century. Allansford is noted for its picturesque appearance and represents a type of small house that is rapidly disappearing from Cornwall.