Penrice

Penrice is a large country house, now functioning as a care home, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of Pentewan stone ashlar with granite dressings and features dry slate and rag slate hipped roofs. The front roof has a moulded and bracketed wooden eaves cornice, while the left-hand return is topped with a moulded stone parapet, and the right-hand return has a moulded wooden cornice. The house has ashlar axial stacks with moulded cornices.

The building has a deep rectangular plan built around a small courtyard, with service ranges located at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has a symmetrical U-shaped principal entrance front with a configuration of 2:1:3:1:2 bays. The outer wings are hipped, and the three-window centre is slightly advanced, topped with a triangular pediment. Most of the windows are original or early 19th-century 12-pane hornless sashes, with some horned copies present. The central porch features a pediment supported by square Tuscan columns, and it contains a four-panel door. The pediment displays a crest with the Latin inscription: PER SINUM SODARUM.

The left-hand return has a symmetrical five-window parapeted front with a central round-arched doorway, along with a lower four-window service range on the left. The sashes in the two right-hand bays are glazed but blind. The right-hand return features a symmetrical front with a configuration of 4:3:4 bays, where the central bays are bowed and have bowed sashes, while the left-hand bay also has glazed but blind sashes.

Inside, the house showcases very fine quality features, including moulded and carved ceiling cornices. The inner hall has a central oval, and the stair hall features an open-well cantilevered open-string staircase with turned balusters. Penrice is recognized as a fine mid-18th-century house.