Laundry Cottages Of Penrose Manor House

The Laundry Cottages of Penrose Manor House are a row of estate cottages built in the early 19th century, incorporating some reused features from the 18th century, likely sourced from the Manor House. Constructed for John Penrose, the cottages have rubble walls, slate hanging on the right-hand gable, and a grouted scantle slate roof with brick end stacks and a rear lateral stack. They are arranged in a long rectangular plan, built end on to the slope, with the eaves and roof parallel to the slope, and are one room deep.

The cottages are two storeys high with an irregular overall seven-window range on the first floor. The windows include five early 19th-century horizontal-sliding sashes with glazing bars, two 16-pane hornless sashes of similar date, a reused 18th-century eight-pane sash positioned on its side, two old casement windows with glazing bars, and a rare early 19th-century two-light window featuring one light with horizontal glazing bars and random leaded panes. There are six doorways, three with 19th-century four-panel doors and two with planked doors. The right-hand end has two early 19th-century horizontal-sliding sashes with glazing bars, while the rear features four windows with glazing bars.

Inside, the cottages retain some reused 18th-century elements, including two 2-panel doors with bolection-moulded panels and HL hinges, additional 2-panel doors, and an eared chimneypiece. Original features include the roof structure with visible collar trusses, most of the floor structures, some staircases, plank and muntin partitions, remnants of a built-in settle, a hob grate, an iron range, an Art Nouveau grate, and a cobbled floor likely added when part of the building was converted for animal use, along with a copper in the section later used as a laundry.

The setting of the cottages is notably intact, featuring a cobbled forecourt leading to a parallel stone wall, an original granite horse trough, and a mounting block. There are also two water cisterns and an iron boot scraper by one doorway.