Penkestle

Penkestle is a house dating from the early 18th century, located in Manaccan, Helford. It features painted rubble walls, slate sills, and wooden lintels, topped by a thatched roof with stone rubble stacks at the gable ends, which are heightened with brick shafts. The original structure has a T-shaped plan consisting of a two-room house, with a likely later 18th-century service wing added at the rear. The house is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical east front with three windows. The first floor has late 18th-century or early 19th-century 12-pane, 2-light horizontal sliding sash windows. The doorway is off-centre to the right and has a four-panel door with a late top-glazed design, while there is a small six-pane casement window to the left of the doorway that lights the stair. The left and right window openings have been deepened and glazed in the 20th century. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is noted to have bowtell moulded beams in the right-hand room. This house is significant as it is the only 18th-century house in Helford with stone chimneys.