Penant Farmhouse And Garden Wall To Front And Sides With Mounting Block

This is a farmhouse, likely dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with later alterations in the early 19th century. It is situated alongside garden walls to the front and sides, and incorporates a mounting block. The farmhouse is constructed of stone rubble, with some rebuilding on the front and rear elevations. The left-hand gable end was renewed in the 1970s. The roof is slate, with a gable end on the left, a hipped end on the right, and a projecting cross wing to the front right with a cement-washed scantle slate roof, hipped to the front and gabled to the rear. The eaves of the front right-hand range appear to have been raised. An early ridge tile in the form of an equestrian figure is present, though the head is missing.

The main range has a brick stack on the left-hand gable end, and a truncated chimney stack is visible within the roof space at the right-hand hipped end. The cross wing features a projecting side lateral chimney stack, rendered with diagonally set shafts, and a circa 17th-century stone rubble stack on the rear gable end. The plan is somewhat uncertain, but appears to consist of an earlier two-room plan cross wing on the right, heated by a side lateral stack and a gable end stack. The main range on the left was probably remodelled in the early 19th century, with a double-depth plan featuring two reception rooms, a wide cross passage containing a stair and service room, and a back stair across the rear.

The farmhouse has two storeys and a 3:1 wing arrangement. The left range has three windows, slightly disposed towards the right, and a doorway to the right of centre. The projecting cross wing on the right has one window. The left range has two probable 19th-century four-pane sashes with a dressed stone arch (probably renewed) on the left and a rendered lintel on the right. A 19th-century four-panel door is set within a 20th-century conservatory porch. There are three probable 19th-century four-pane sashes on the first floor, each with a dressed stone arch. The cross wing on the right has a blocked opening in the side wall on the left, as well as 19th-century 20-pane sashes on both ground and first floors. A reset granite lintel sits above the first-floor opening. The rear elevation is mostly unaltered, featuring 19th-century sashes and a 19th-century two-light sliding-sash window in the first floor of the gable end of the cross wing on the left.

The interior of the main range has roof timbers replaced in the mid to late 19th century. The rear section of the cross wing retains circa mid-17th-century roof timbers, including fairly heavy clean principals with possibly slightly curved feet, halved, lapped, and pegged at the apex. Collars are chamfered and halved, lapped, and pegged onto the principals. The roof structure to the front section of the cross wing is inaccessible. A full internal inspection was not possible.

The stone rubble garden wall to the front and sides includes a mounting block on the left-hand side. The property was formerly owned by the Row family, who were Catholics.