Penjerrick

Penjerrick is a small house built around the early 19th century. It is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite quoins and brick arches featuring projecting keystones. The roof is a double span covered with slurried scantle slate, and there are brick chimneys at the gable ends of the front roof and a lateral brick chimney located midway over the rear wall. The house has a two-room central stair plan, with two shallower service rooms integrated at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front facing southwest, with a central doorway that features a glazed 20th-century door. The openings have shallow arches above them, and the original windows are 16-pane hornless sashes. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is reported to be little altered. This house is part of a group of four similar houses built under a three-life lease system, which allowed individuals to build on waste ground at a nominal rent, with the understanding that the property would revert to the original owner upon the death of the longest-lived of three selected individuals. Penjerrick is an unspoilt house situated in a harmonious architectural group, overlooking a beautiful and unspoilt stretch of Cowlands Creek.