Pentruse Cottage

ST ERVAN SW 97 SW 4/171 Pentruse Cottage

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Cottage, later became lodge to Pentruse Farmhouse. Circa mid C19, extended later in C19. Slate rubble with red brick window dressings and slate cills. Rag slate hipped roof with black glazed ridge tiles. Brick axial stack to left of centre with rebuilt brick shaft and right hand end stack with brick shaft. Plan: The existing cottage has a 3-room single depth plan. The 2-room plan to the left is the original cottage with a lobby entrance against a central axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces heating the small parlour to the left and larger original kitchen to the right. Later in the C19 a small room with a loft above was added to the right end. In the late C20 a single storey extension was built at the back. Exterior: 2 storeys. 2:1 window range, the 1 window to the right is the later C19 extension built in the same style. Original C19 16-pane casements with red brick jambs and slate cills, the ground floor has cambered brick arches and the first floor have small gables above the eaves with zigzag bargeboards. Doorway to left of centre has red brick cambered arch and C19 glazed and panelled door. Similar gabled head to the windows on the left hand end and at rear, both C19 casements. At the back a C20 single storey rendered extension. Interior: The smaller left hand room has a bracketed chimney-piece, the centre room a C20 chimney piece and a C19 straight staircase against the back wall with stick balusters and square newel. The ceilings have exposed soft wood joists.

Listing NGR: SW9120370660