Pengelly

Pengelly is a manor house, later farmhouse, now private house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. It was partly rebuilt in the 18th century and extended to the rear in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The building is constructed of rubblestone with an asbestos slate roof. The central range has gable ends, with a hipped end to an adjoining store continuing to a left-hand gable end. A higher roof continues over a right-hand range with a gable end on the left and hipped end on the right, with the roof descending over the ground floor to the front south-east elevation. Two projecting wings extend to the rear, both with gabled ends. Large stone stacks stand near the junction with the hipped end on the right and projecting rear wing, and a large stone stack with brick shaft sits on the left-hand gable of the right-hand range. A further stone stack is positioned on the left-hand gable of the central range.

The plan has been much altered over time. Originally the building probably contained three rooms with a through passage. The through passage survives but has been blocked to the rear by a 19th-century extension. The range to the right dates from the late 16th or early 17th century and retains its hall with a fireplace backing onto the through passage. The range to the left of the through passage was rebuilt around the 18th century. The plan was modified during the 18th century with extensions to the rear, including a probable rear kitchen and dairy, creating a double-depth plan.

The south-east front elevation shows two storeys at the left lower end, with a 20th-century two-light casement without glazing bars beneath a brick segmental arch. A wide early 20th-century partly glazed door stands to the right with flanking rubble walls of a 19th-century porch, though the porch roof has been removed. Above are two 20th-century two-light casements without glazing bars. Continuing to the right and set slightly forward beneath a sloping roof is a single-storey range with a loft above, containing a 20th-century three-light casement without glazing bars. A cloam oven projection extends to the south-east of the rear projecting wing on the north. The rear shows a double gable end on the left, while the gable to the right was originally an outshut but was heightened circa the 1970s and clad with asbestos slate.

Internally, a room on the right features 17th-century chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops and a chamfered granite lintel and jambs to a 17th-century fireplace. A cloam oven is also present. Small timber framing with rubble infill survives to the rear of the room in the 18th-century range, though the ceiling beams have been renewed. The fireplace in the rear wing on the north has a granite lintel and cloam oven, with renewed ceiling beams. The roof over the 17th-century range retains two heavy principals that are chamfered with notches cut out of uncertain purpose, dying into the wall plate. Trenched purlins with slightly cambered heavy collars support the structure.

Pengelly was a Domesday manor held by Ednoth before and after 1066, and later became a tenant farm of Callington Manor, being mentioned in the Feet of Fines of 1393 and 1492 (published by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society).