Pendavey Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, likely dating to the early to mid-18th century, with some alterations in the late 18th century. It is constructed from ashlar stalestone and stone rubble, with asbestos slate roofs featuring hipped ends to the front range and rear wing. Brick stacks are located to the rear of the left-hand wing, axially between the front and rear right-hand wing, and at the end of the rear right-hand wing. The house is built across a sloping site, incorporating a cellar beneath the front range.

The original layout is uncertain, but the front range appears to be a single-depth, two-room plan with a wide central entrance hall and a staircase projection to the rear. Two reception rooms are heated by rear lateral stacks. A rear right-hand wing, possibly added in the late 18th century, originally comprised a one-room kitchen with a back-to-back fireplace shared with the front right-hand room. In the early 19th century, a further room was added to this wing, serving as a large kitchen with an end stack. Around the mid-19th century, an additional room was added to the rear of the left-hand room, and further extended in the late 19th or early 20th century to create a dairy.

The exterior is two storeys and has a cellar. The symmetrical five-window front features dressed slate and slatestone flat arches with keyblocks above the window openings. A central panelled door is surmounted by a blind fanlight and broken pediment. Timber-cased piers are visible. There are two horned 12-pane sashes to the right and left of the entrance, and five 3-over-6-pane sashes on the first floor, with the fourth sash likely dating to the early 19th century. A round-headed stair window, dating to the late 18th or early 19th century, is located at the rear.

The interior retains much of its original joinery and carpentry from the late 18th and early to mid-19th centuries. The wide entrance hall features an early 19th-century plaster cornice, while the staircase dates from the late 18th to early 19th centuries and has an open string, stick balusters, turned newels, and a moulded and wreathed rail. Cornices are moulded in the left-hand room and simpler in the right-hand room, both with 20th-century chimney pieces. A gun rack is positioned above the 19th-century mantel in the earlier kitchen.

The site is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Historical records indicate the Priors of Bodmin had a chapel at Pendavey, and in 1669 the manor, mansion house and barton passed to the Moyle family.