Rananim

Rananim is a Grade II farmhouse, originally a pair of cottages, likely built in the 18th century and remodeled in the 19th century. The structure is made of granite rubble with granite dressings and features a half-hipped Welsh slate roof, with the eaves heightened during the 19th century. The building was designed as two one-room plan cottages with entrance lobbies and stairs in the middle, but it has since been converted into a single house. At the rear, there are late 19th-century lean-tos and a former outbuilding on the right, which were remodeled and extended in the 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical front facing south-southeast, with two windows and a pair of doorways in the middle. The doors and windows have been replaced with 20th-century versions. The interior has not been inspected.

D.H. Lawrence lived in this cottage from 1916 to 1917. He arrived in Zennor in 1916 and initially stayed at the Tinner's Arms while searching for a cottage with his wife, Frieda. They rented this cottage for £5 a year. At that time, it was still two cottages, and Katherine Marsfield and John Middleton Murry lived in the other half, hoping to create a "tiny settlement," though they did not stay long. Lawrence continued to work on the sequel to his novel The Rainbow, which was published later as Women in Love in 1920. However, he faced suspicion from local residents due to his appearance as a bearded anti-war intellectual with a German wife. In October 1917, police searched their cottage and told them to leave, an experience that left a lasting bitterness reflected in his semi-autobiographical novel Kangaroo published in 1923. The farmhouse is part of an unspoiled coastal hamlet situated within the ancient field system of this area of Cornwall.