Radland

Radland is a farmhouse, now a house, at St Dominick. It was probably built in the mid-seventeenth century, with a front addition of around the eighteenth century, and subsequent alterations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble with roughcast rendering, and has a thatched roof with gable ends.

The plan follows a traditional three-room and through-passage arrangement. The lower end room, heated by a gable end stack, occupies the right side. To the left of the passage is the hall, warmed by an axial stack backing on to the passage. The upper end room to the left appears never to have been heated and contains a large stair hall with two small unheated store rooms to the rear. A parlour wing to the front left, heated by a stack on its outer side, appears to be part of the original build. In the eighteenth century, the house was made nearly symmetrical by the addition of a two-storey stable to the front right; the partition wall between the lower end room and the stable appears to have been rebuilt at this time. A small single-storey addition of twentieth-century date extends to the rear of the passage and hall.

The front elevation is two storeys with two windows, all of twentieth-century replacement. The ground floor has a studded door with fleur de lys strap hinges and a thatched hood, a two-light casement to the right, and a three-light casement to the left. The first floor has two two-light casements with eyebrow formers. The two-storey wing to the front right has a studded door with fleur de lys strap hinges, probably reused from elsewhere in the house, and a single light below a three-light casement at first floor. The wing to the left is also two storeys, with a twentieth-century door on the inner side. Its front has a two-light casement at ground floor and a three-light casement at first floor. On the right side is a twentieth-century glazed double door, and a gable-end external stack with a curved oven at the base. The left side of the front wing has an external stack. The gable end of the main range has a two-light casement at ground floor and a single light to the stair at first floor. At the rear to the left are three-light casements at both ground and first floor levels. To the rear right are two single lights at ground floor and a two-light casement at first floor. A straight joint by the passage may mark the site of earlier rebuilding.

Internally, the lower end room contains irregular-shaped chamfered and run-out stopped beams. The gable-end fireplace has a moulded timber lintel and two slits in the back of the fireplace that appear to continue into the flue, possibly for draught control. A pot jack and cloam oven stand to the left, and a former smoking chamber lies to the left of the fireplace. A doorway from this room into the stable has a concave moulded and step-stopped frame; the wall appears to have been rebuilt, with an internal window between the lower end room and the stable. The hall has a granite fireplace with chamfered jambs and lintel decorated with step stops, over which a timber lintel is set. The parlour in the front left wing is ceiled and contains a granite fireplace with roll moulding and double step stop. The end room features a dog-leg stair with reused eighteenth-century turned balusters, possibly marking the site of the original stair. At first floor, a moulded lintel remains over the blocked fireplace at the right gable end.

The roof has been much rebuilt but reuses some earlier timbers, including some principals formerly fitted with trenched purlins. The principal rafters are crossed and pegged at the apex with halved collars.