Polgover

Polgover is a house dating from around the 17th century, significantly remodelled in about 1700. The base is of stone rubble, while the front elevation is brick, constructed in irregular bonds. The side and rear elevations are rendered, and the roof is slate, with hipped ends; regular slates cover the front, and scantle slates are at the rear. There are three rear lateral chimney stacks; two with rendered brick shafts serving the front rooms, incorporated into later extensions, and a third serving a rear service room on the right side.

The original layout was probably two rooms with a through passage, initially heated by a rear lateral chimney stack. Around 1700, the house was substantially remodelled, with the facade refaced in brick, the passage widened, and the two front rooms altered. A wide stair was placed to the rear of the passage, and service rooms, including a dairy on the back left and kitchen on the back right, were added, creating a double-depth plan.

Originally, the house presented a symmetrical seven-window front of two storeys, with brick segmental arches over the openings. A brick string course runs above the ground-floor openings, and brick quoin and pilaster strips flank the entrance. Several openings are now blocked. On the ground floor, the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh openings from the left are blocked. The second opening contains a C19 three-light cross window with crown glass and glazing bars, with a similar window placed asymmetrically in the sixth opening. The central C19 panelled door has a C20 brick porch with a hipped slate roof. On the first floor, the first, third, and fifth openings are blocked, and there are C19 two-light casements with crown glass and glazing bars in the remaining openings. Above the entrance is a heraldic coat of arms, likely belonging to the Mayow family.

Inside, the wide passage has double doors leading to a room on the left, which features complete bolection moulded panelling, a chair rail, and a large marble bolection moulded chimney piece with a C20 brick grate. The right-hand room has a C20 chimney piece. A wide-framed stair divides at the landing, branching left and right to passages behind the first-floor rooms, featuring a closed string with a moulded rail, square newels, and turned balusters. The roof was replaced in the mid-19th century.