Park View And Valentine Cottage, Including 2 Outbuildings And Well Head At Rear (North)

Park View and Valentine Cottage are two houses forming a terrace, dating from the early 19th century. They are situated in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. The houses are constructed of painted rubble walls, with some cob at the rear, and have slate sills. Shallow brick arches or timber lintels support the windows. The roofs are covered with original grouted scantle slate, with a double span roof on the left-hand house, plus single-storey gable-ended wings to the rear and a single-storey lean-to on the right. Grouted brick chimneys rise from the gable ends and cross walls, and cast iron ogee gutters run along the roofline.

The original plan comprised an identical pair of mirror-image, single-cell cottages, with a shared entrance at the centre leading to the staircases on either side of a thin party wall. Each cottage was later extended by one room at either end; the right-hand end with a new entrance to the left of the extension and both extended to the rear. The left-hand cottage has a two-storey, two-room service area, further extended by single-storey projecting service wings to the rear. The right-hand cottage has a single-room lean-to at the rear right, otherwise displaying a blind cob wall.

The south front has an overall appearance of four windows from the original central pair of cottages, with a one-window front to each of the early 19th century additions on the left and right. The left-hand house features an ornate cast iron porch, later glazed over the original doorway, to the right. With the exception of a narrow single-light window to the ground floor left, the windows are original 16-pane hornless sashes. The right-hand house has later 4-pane horned sashes, and the original doorway is now a window on the ground floor, left, almost adjoining the door wall of the left-hand house. The present doorway is to the left of the right-hand extension, featuring keystones over the arches, and a brick porch with a cornice. The door is a four-panel design, later top-glazed.

The rear of the properties is largely original, featuring original doors and windows, mostly hornless sashes with glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected, but it is reported to be little altered since the 20th century.

A rear outbuilding, dating from around the early 19th century, has grouted rubble walls, a scantle slate roof with gable ends, and a lean-to at the front left. It has a wooden launder and an L-shaped plan, with the main rectangular room having a one-room lean-to to the front left (south side). A further outbuilding at the rear right, also dating from around the early 19th century, is a single-cell, single-storey structure with grouted rubble walls and a felted roof with gable ends, featuring a doorway at the south gable end and a small window at the north gable end. The interior of both outbuildings has not been inspected.

A well head, also dating from around the early 19th century, has granite steps leading to a square granite base with iron framing over, supporting a cylindrical wooden windlass with a cranked iron handle. It is now operated by an electrical pump.

The group of houses, outbuildings, and well head is virtually complete and unaltered since the 19th century. The setting is notable as this represents one of a few unspoiled examples of 19th-century buildings in this area of Cornwall.