Pendragon House And Attached Garden Walls

Pendragon House is a rectory, later adapted for use as a residential home for the elderly. It was built in the mid-to-late 18th century, with a significant extension around 1820-1830, and minor later additions and alterations. The original fabric is of regularly coursed and dressed slate stone alternating with granite bands; granite quoin strips define the front, while the 19th-century extensions to the rear are of rendered slate stone. The roofs are slate, hipped in style.

The original house comprised seven bays, which was extended to the east by a double-span range in the 19th century. The two-storey, seven-bay front features a chamfered plinth, a granite floor band, and a painted wooden eaves cornice with modillion details. The first floor has glazing bar sashes, each with wedged voussoirs and projecting granite keystones, the two on the right being dummy elements. Infilled windows are located to the left and right of the centre. The ground floor has four-paned sashes to the two outer bays, and to the right, with the bottom glazing bar removed. A central 19th-century glazed door occupies the position of a former window. Rendered lateral stacks are integral to the rear wall. A mid-19th century canted bay window is present to the ground floor of the right return, featuring a tripartite sash window above. A one-bay linking range attaching to the rear, with a blind window on each floor, has a pointed outline suggestive of a former conservatory. The rear extension has four glazing bar sashes to the first floor, and 15-panel glazing bar sashes extending to the ground floor, with the lower right window being blind. A rendered ridge stack is positioned immediately to the right of the third window from the left. A wide, pointed chamfered granite arch with broach stops to the jambs, probable from the 17th century, is incorporated into the east wall, although it is not original to its current position. A flat-roofed 19th-century porch in the angle between the main range and facing north features a moulded entablature and a round-headed outer arch, with half-glazed double doors and a rectangular overlight.

A garden wall projecting from the rear range, to the right of the left window on the south side, forms two right-angled turns, possessing a chamfered pointed granite arch, single-stepped on its eastern side. A second wall, projecting from the east side of the rear range and incorporating several outbuildings, is buttressed and features an infilled opening on the north side.

Inside, a mid-18th century top-lit open-well staircase features a ramped handrail, circular newels, and turned balusters. The original 18th-century part has moulded plaster cornices to the ground and first floors, along with panelled doors and window shutters. Early 19th-century fireplaces are present throughout, many with cast-iron grates, some of the hour-glass type.