Moor Vale Penvercoe Cottage

This is a mid-to-late 17th-century farmhouse, later divided into two separate houses named Moor Vale and Penvercoe Cottage. It is located near Ruthernbridge, Cornwall. The construction uses slatestone rubble for the main walls, with a cob rear wall. A slate roof is topped with ridge and gable tiles. The building incorporates gable end and rear lateral stacks, the latter featuring brick shafts.

Originally, the farmhouse had a two-room plan; the right-hand room was likely a kitchen, with a rear lateral stack for heating, and the room to the left, probably a parlour, with a gable end stack. In the mid-18th century, an outshut was added to the rear, extending two stories and containing two rooms—one heated by a rear lateral stack, the other unheated. A staircase was inserted into the right-hand room of the outshut, dividing it into a front and rear room at the first floor level. This provided access to the rooms within the outshut. A small stable was added to the right end in the 19th century. The house was later divided into the two separate dwellings, with the left-hand end wall rebuilt in the 20th century.

The exterior presents an asymmetrical three-window front. The upper floor windows are 2-light 8-pane casements with timber lintels, though these are largely 20th-century replacements. The ground floor has a plank door under a gabled hood, a 2-light casement with a timber lintel to the right, an inserted 20th-century door and casement to the left, and a rebuilt left end wall made of 20th-century concrete blocks. Attached to the right end is a single-story stable with a stable door to the front. The side of the stable has a late Victorian letterbox and a 2-light casement, covered by a corrugated asbestos roof. The rear wall is cob. A straight joint indicating the outshut’s addition is visible on the right side, alongside a 20th-century door with a brick segmental arch. The rear first floor features three original 18th-century 2-light 8-pane casements with L hinges and thick glazing bars; the ground floor retains one original 2-light casement with a brick segmental arch on the right and a 20th-century replacement on the left. The brick stack of the outshut has been truncated.

Inside, the room to the front right has a rebuilt 20th-century fireplace. An original 18th-century corner cupboard with a panelled round-arched door is also present. Rough-hewn beams are visible in the ground and first-floor rooms. The first-floor staircase divides, with a round arch cut through the rear cob wall to access the outshut.