Kilminorth House

Kilminorth House is a manor house, later converted to a farmhouse and now a private residence, located in Lansallos. The building dates from approximately the 17th century, with significant rebuilding of the inner room and chamber above in the early 19th century.

The house is constructed of stone rubble with painted render on the rear elevation. The main range has a renewed scantle slate roof with gabled ends, while the remodelled lower range has a renewed scantle slate roof with a hipped lower end. The rear kitchen range features a scantle slate roof with gable ends. Multiple chimney stacks serve the building: a projecting stone rubble rear lateral stack to the room at the higher end, a rendered axial stack in the lower gable end of the main range, and a projecting stone rubble stack with a 20th-century rendered brick shaft in the lower hipped end of the 19th-century section. A rear projecting kitchen wing with chimney to the kitchen fireplace on the gable end has been removed. A stone rubble axial chimney stack stands at the junction with the 19th-century range.

The house comprises a two-room plan with a through passage, now blocked at the front entrance with a stair inserted. The higher end is heated by a rear lateral stack and the lower end by a gable end stack. An early 19th-century range at the lower end contains an entrance hall with a rear stair projection and a room at the lower end heated by an end stack. A kitchen range projects to the rear, creating an overall L-shaped plan. A circa 17th-century chamfered timber lintel over the blocked entrance from the kitchen wing into the 19th-century range, together with a C17 ovolo-moulded timber lintel over the doorway from the 19th-century range through the lower gable end of the main range, suggests the 19th-century range replaces an earlier structure.

The building is two storeys and asymmetrical, presenting a five-window front. The ground floor features a later 19th or 20th-century corrugated iron and glazed gabled porch at the higher end on the left serving an inserted circa 19th-century entrance. A probable hall window to the left of centre has a 19th-century three-light casement with a 17th-century ovolo-moulded timber lintel with ogee stops. Evidence of a blocked entrance to the through passage appears to the right. A late 19th-century two-light casement with timber lintel serves the lower room of the 17th-century range. The first floor has a 19th-century three-light casement with HL hinges, and late 19th-century three-light and two-light casements to the centre and right above the ground floor openings. The early 19th-century range on the right-hand side has a late 19th-century gabled glazed porch with panelled door and two circa early 19th-century twelve-pane sashes without horns, with a continuous timber lintel. Above are three tall circa early 19th-century eighteen-pane sashes without horns.

The rear elevation of the main range contains a 19th-century two-light casement on the ground floor below a slate dripmould. A circa 20th-century door to the right serves the rear of the original through passage, with a slated hood in the angle with the rear lateral, probably the hall stack. A stair window in the early 19th-century range is positioned in the angle formed by the two 17th-century ranges. The kitchen range in the rear projecting wing has a 20th-century door in a partly blocked opening, a 19th-century one-light casement, and a 20th-century door to the right. Above is a twelve-pane sash with horns in a half-dormer with a raking roof. The lower side elevation of the kitchen features a 19th-century two-light casement on the ground floor and a four-pane sash half-dormer with a raking roof. A 20th-century door appears to the right. A much-rebuilt lean-to outshut to the right originally contained a circa 17th-century winder stair.

Internally, the main range contains a probable hall room at the higher end, much altered with a 19th-century chimney piece. Ceiling beams and roof timbers above were replaced circa 1970s. The room at the lower end of the through passage has a large fireplace now blocked by a 20th-century chimney piece, with roughly chamfered ceiling beams. A 17th-century ovolo-moulded lintel spans the entrance in the lower gable end. The kitchen range features a large fireplace on the gable end with a chamfered lintel with ogee stops. Chamfered ceiling beams, several with plain stops, run through the space. An inner doorframe to the side entrance door has an ovolo-moulded timber frame, and a further adjoining door originally leading to the stair projection bears a similar 17th-century ovolo-moulded timber frame. The roof timbers date from circa the late 17th century, featuring slightly chamfered collars halved, lapped and pegged into principals. The principals are halved, lapped and pegged at the apex.