Pinhays

Pinhays is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with a 19th-century addition and alterations and extensions made in the 20th century. The building features rendered stone rubble walls and a gable-ended natural slate roof. There are rendered rubble axial stacks and rendered brick stacks at each gable end, with the right-hand stack being a 20th-century addition.

Originally, the house had a three-room-and-through passage plan, with a lower room on the left that may have always been heated. The hall stack backs onto the passage and includes a window bay at the front. A partition between the hall and a narrow inner room was removed in the late 20th century. The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front featuring 20th-century one, two, and three-light casements, most of which have small panes. There is a projecting gabled two-storey bay to the right of centre, and to the left of centre is a late 20th-century glazed door that is recessed behind a slate hood supported by wooden posts. A lean-to extends along the rear wall, with a late 20th-century single-storey addition behind it.

Inside, there is an 18th-century fielded two-panel door leading into the left-hand room. The fireplace in the right-hand room has been altered but still retains its roughly chamfered wooden lintel and an oven on the left-hand side. All ceilings have been replaced, and there is no sign of early roof timbers on the first floor.