The Tinners Arms

ZENNOR ZENNOR SW 43 NE 4/339 The Tinners Arms 9.2.88 GV II Public house. Probably circa early C18 extended in the C19 and C20. Granite rubble with granite moorstone dressings. Grouted or slurried scantle slate roofs. Dressed granite stacks over the original gable ends. Plan: 2 room plan house (now 1 room) with larger hall/kitchen, right, and parlour over lower ground, left. Possibly there was an unheated middle room for there is a small blocked window right of the doorway. In the C19 extended on the left and at right angles to the front, left. Exterior: 2 storeys. Originally a slightly irregular 2 or 3 window front but left- hand bay obscured by C19 addition. Doorway left of middle. Window openings are C19 altered or added except for blocked opening right of doorway. C20 door and windows. Interior: large fireplace, right and small fireplace, left. D. H. Lawrence stayed at the Tinner's Arms in 1916 with his wife Frieda, while looking for a cottage to rent. They eventually found Higher Tregerthen (Rananim q.v.).

Listing NGR: SW4543838502