The Tinners Arms

The Tinners Arms is a public house, likely built in the early 18th century and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite moorstone dressings and features grouted or slurried scantle slate roofs. The building has dressed granite stacks over the original gable ends. The original plan consisted of a two-room house, which has now been converted into one room, with a larger hall or kitchen on the right and a parlour on the lower ground to the left. There may have been an unheated middle room, as indicated by a small blocked window to the right of the doorway. The building was extended in the 19th century on the left side and at right angles to the front.

The exterior is two storeys high and originally had a slightly irregular front with two or three window openings, although the left-hand bay is obscured by the 19th-century addition. The doorway is located to the left of the middle, and the window openings have been altered or added in the 19th century, except for the blocked opening to the right of the doorway. The door and windows are from the 20th century. Inside, there is a large fireplace on the right and a small fireplace on the left. Notably, D. H. Lawrence stayed at the Tinners Arms in 1916 with his wife Frieda while searching for a cottage to rent, which they eventually found at Higher Tregerthen.