Penmount

Penmount is a country house that has been converted into a crematorium. It was built in the early to mid-late 18th century and features stucco with rusticated granite quoins and hipped roofs made of Delabole and asbestos slate. The building has an L-shaped plan with later extensions and stands two storeys tall, plus attics.

The south entrance front has a symmetrical arrangement of two, one, and two bays, with the central bay projecting forward and featuring a Tuscan porch that is now closed and partly obscured by a 20th-century porte cochere. Above the porch is a window, and there is a round-headed attic window that interrupts the cornice beneath a pediment. The flanking bays have a plinth, tall rounded-headed leaded windows (which are 20th-century insertions), a cornice, and a plain parapet.

The east front consists of two, three, and two bays, with the central bays also projecting forward. These contain a three-light bay window with a scantle roof and a door to the right. The first floor features three 12-panel sash windows and a lunette with glazing bars beneath a pediment. The ground and first floor windows on the left bay are blind, while the right bay has a window and door on the ground floor. The windows throughout the building are primarily 12-paned sashes, with the bay window and doors being later additions. An early 18th-century sash window is preserved at the rear.

Inside, the building showcases mid to late 18th-century details and some 19th-century features in several rooms, including the entrance hall, which has pedimented door cases, a Vitruvian scroll frieze, and a gallery on one side. The back stair is from the early 18th century, while the main early 19th-century stair is located at Polwhele. Penmount was once the residence of Charles Henderson, a Cornish historian.