40, High Street

This is a late 18th-century house located on the north side of High Street, Padstow. The exterior is of stone rubble with slate hung above the ground floor, and has a slate roof with hipped ends. The original layout is uncertain, but it may have been a three-room and passage plan. The ground slopes down to the right. A single-storey service range, likely with a two-room plan, was added around the early 19th century to the rear left.

The front of the house is regular in design with four windows. The entrance is to the right of centre, featuring a 19th-century panelled door within a flat-roofed porch, supported by painted timber columns. The ground floor has two hornless 12-pane sash windows to the left and a similar sash window to the right. The first floor has four hornless 12-pane sash windows. Two gabled dormers with casements light the attic. The rear wing to the left is single-storeyed, with pointed two-centred arched openings. The right-hand room on the ground floor retains 19th-century panelling and a chimney-piece.