Penlee, Including Garden Boundary Wall Railings And Gate Piers To South-East

Penlee is a house dating from the early 19th century, located in Ipplepen on Fore Street. It features stucco walls with rusticated quoins and a hipped slate roof supported by brackets under the eaves. The building has two rendered brick gable end stacks and a double depth plan with two front rooms on either side of a central stair hall, a third main room at the rear right, and a kitchen at the rear left. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear, and the partition between the right-hand room and the room behind has been removed.

The house is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front and a central door. The first-floor windows are original 12-pane hornless sashes, while the ground floor features tall 18-pane hornless sashes with arched heads and gothic tracery. The original panelled door has four reeded strips instead of the bottom two panels, each adorned with a carved swag at the top, and there is a round-headed doorway. A band runs between the floors, and at the rear is a leanto extension from the early 20th century.

Inside, the property retains several original features, including a simple moulded cornice in the principal rooms. The front right-hand room has alcoves on either side of the chimney-breast, each with ornate ogee-shaped heads and moulded pilasters with decorative capitals. Both front rooms have original panelled shutters. The hall features reeded architraves with roundels in the corners and six-panel doors. The open well staircase has simply turned newels with stick balusters, but no original chimneypieces remain.

The listing also includes the limestone rubble garden wall at the front, which borders the road and has iron railings on top, with urn finials on the intermediate posts. There are slightly projecting gate piers at the center with similarly decorated posts on either side of the gate.