Stabling and Cobbled Pavements adjoining Godolphin House

These stables and associated cobbled pavements adjoin Godolphin House (a separately listed building). They likely date from the early 17th century, although they may be as early as the late 16th century. The construction is granite moorstone rubble with granite dressings, and the roof is covered in scantle slate, incorporating reused 17th and 18th century crested clay ridge tiles. The west gable has kneelers and a finial, with an abutment connecting to the house on the east side.

The range is long and accessible only from its north face. The ground floor is divided into two long, equal compartments flanking a smaller central compartment. The first floor layout mirrors this, with a central access lobby positioned above the center compartment. The front elevation is symmetrical, with each half symmetrical around its doorway. A small, centrally-placed basket-arched doorway leads to the first floor, accessed by stone steps (reused); it is flanked by four small windows, two on each floor, lighting the central compartments. To either side are arrangements of four-centred, chamfered doorways at ground floor level, each flanked by three-light mullioned windows. Late 19th-century loading doors now replace original two-light mullioned windows above the ground floor doorways, all evenly spaced (with one mullion missing from the far right). Pigeon holes are visible below the eaves. The west gable end features a central first-floor single light window. The rear wall of the west half has a small ventilator window, a range of bee boles, and eaves pigeon holes. The east half was rebuilt in the 19th century, and four dormer windows were added in the 1950s.

The interior retains some roof trusses with halved lap-dovetail jointed collars and threaded purlins. The central lobby has framed partitions, each with a chamfered, square-headed doorway approached by a few steps (19th-century replacements). This secure upper compartment, or the one beneath it, likely served as a tack room. The west end’s floor structure includes chamfered cross beams with run-out stops, lesser chamfered axial beams, and joists; the floor to the east retains only chamfered cross beams, potentially indicating a slightly later construction. Cobbled floors with drainage runnels are present in all three ground floor compartments. Although early fittings are absent, some late 19th-century loose box divisions remain at the west end.

Extending along the front of the building and returning along the west side of the east forecourt wall (reduced to a narrow strip at the north end) is a wide, slightly raised cobbled pavement with a granite kerb. An engraving from William Borlase's Antiquities and Natural History of the County of Cornwall suggests the roof may have been thatched or shingled in the mid-18th century. The stables are considered the finest of their period in the county.