Pendennis

This is a substantial detached house in Bradninch, built in the 17th century with later alterations. The house is constructed of a mix of cob and stone, with plaster render and brick patching, and has a wheat reed thatched roof with gabled ends to the right and half-hipped wings. Originally designed with a three-room, cross-passage plan, it has two wings added to the higher end, built in different styles. A large end stack with a 17th-century brick shaft is located to the left of the main range, and another end stack with a brick shaft and moulded cap is situated in the rear parlour wing.

The house is two stories high. The front, which faces southwest, has a three-window arrangement. The upper windows are casements under eyebrow eaves, with three lights, two containing two panes of glass each and one containing three. The ground floor has one two-light and one three-light casement window, with two and three panes of glass respectively. There is a concrete-tiled porch to the left, set further left than the blocked entrance to the former cross-passage. A 20th-century pantiled lean-to porch with a two-light window occupies the angle between the main range and the front wing. Above this is a three-light window with two panes of glass per light. The rear elevation includes one 20th-century single-light window and one older single-light window to the first floor, and a two-light casement window to the right of the rear entrance. A French window is visible on the inner face of the parlour wing, with a four-light casement window above. A small three-light window with two leaded panes per light sits in the wing's end wall, above a single-light window. The left-hand elevations feature two- and three-light windows to the ground floor only. Although panes have been removed from most windows, many survive within pre-19th-century window surrounds and openings.

Inside, the right-hand (lower end) room contains an end fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a timber lintel, as well as three cross beams – two chamfered with stop-chamfered stops. The original hall arrangement has been altered with the insertion of an entrance lobby, staircase, and an axial chamfered beam with scroll stops. The parlour fireplace features unadorned stone jambs and timber lintels. The roof to the main range is ceiled, preventing inspection, but a single jointed cruck and two trenched purlins are visible, along with another truss of indeterminate type. The parlour wing’s upper room shows roughly hewn roof timbers, with three bays and purlins retaining some bark.