Penlee Lodge

Penlee Lodge is a house, originally built as a gatehouse for the Mount Edgcumbe estate, dating to circa 1860. It incorporates a basement storey that is part of an earlier Napoleonic fortification, alongside a late 20th-century addition and subsequent alterations. The exterior is constructed of rubble, with a painted basement and rendered upper walls, topped by a concrete tiled hipped roof featuring paired stacks at the front and rear. The building is based around a square tower, built on the plinth of the Napoleonic fortification, with a rear stair tower. The original front entrance has been concealed by a 20th-century two-storey addition, and a new entrance was created on the left side. The building is reported to have been reconstructed three times during the 19th century, leading to the omission of a staircase, which was later added to the rear.

The tower is in an Italianate belvedere style, reminiscent of Tower Cottage at Cremyll, and was also built upon a basement of an 18th-century fortification. A similar basement storey is also found at 1-3 West Park Cottages. The tower stands three stories high, without a cellar. The front of the building features a projecting two-storey 20th-century block, along with two round-headed windows and a glazed lean-to with a flat, railed roof. The second floor of the tower has a three-bay arcade of round arches supported by plain columns on plinths, with blind windows and deep eaves resting on brackets; one window is present on the front left side with 20th-century glazing. To the right side, the addition features two stepped lancet windows at ground floor, a round-headed window at first floor, and a band course.

The ground floor of the tower has paired round-headed lights with a central column and engaged columns on either side, with 8-pane lights, and two stepped lancets above, illuminating the stair. The rear block to the right has a lancet window at ground floor illuminating the stair, alongside a band course and parapet. All windows on the second floor are blind. The basement storey on this side exhibits a pronounced batter and a bull nose moulding, which has been partially removed to the front, within the addition. The left side of the building boasts a round-headed doorway with cover strips, a small round-headed light to the right, a band course, and two single round-headed lights at first floor, all within the new addition.

The tower itself has one window at ground floor, and two at both first and second floors, all paired with central columns and round heads, with larger windows at ground floor level. A catslide roof covers the stair block to the left, while the rear features a three-bay blind arcade at the second floor, a round-headed doorway, and a round-headed recess at ground floor, along with a lancet and a ramped band course. The bull nose moulding continues over the battered basement storey.

Internally, a ground floor room within the tower has windows featuring a central pilaster and Greek key moulding. It is believed the original entrance was to the front, which was later repositioned to the left side when the addition was built.