Pondhu House

Pondhu House is a house built around the mid-19th century, designed in the Italianate villa style by an unknown architect. It is constructed from Pentewan stone ashlar and features a gable-ended roof made of Delabole slate, with deep eaves and verges that display exposed purlin ends and crested ridge tiles. The house has ashlar stacks with tall paired shafts and bracketed cornices.

The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main rooms located on the southeast garden front. The stair hall is situated behind, accessible from the entrance on the northeast side, with a service wing extending to the rear on the northwest.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic, featuring a 2:2 bay arrangement on the southeast garden front, where the left bay is gabled. On the ground floor, there are two round-headed windows on the left with rusticated architraves and keystones, and a gabled bay window on the right with tripartite round-headed windows that also have keystones, imposts, and large console brackets supporting the cills. The first floor has four windows with plain architraves, moulded hoods on console brackets, and a continuous moulded string that breaks forwards at the cills on console brackets. A small 2-light round-headed attic window is located in the left gable.

On the northeast side, there are three staggered gables, with the centre gable projecting and featuring a round arch doorway and window on the ground floor, along with two windows above that are similar to those on the southeast garden front. There is a small blind round-headed attic window in the gable; the left gable is blind, while the right side has a large round-headed stair window and a projecting lateral stack. The gable to the right is set back, with the service wing extending into the northwest.

The interior includes a stair hall with paired brackets supporting the frieze and cornice, along with cantilevered stone stairs featuring cast-iron anthemion balusters and a mahogany handrail. The doors are mahogany panelled, and the doorcases are elaborate and classical, adorned with carved festoons and marble chimneypieces.

Pondhu House is recognized as a good example of an early Victorian Italianate style villa.