Dandylands

Dandylands is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The house is built of whitewashed cob on granite rubble footings, with a slate roof that was formerly thatched. The roof is gabled at the ends, with a projecting stack on the right gable end and a projecting rear lateral stack. Originally a single build house, its plan comprised three rooms and a through passage, with the lower end situated to the right. The hall was originally heated by a rear lateral stack. A staircase along the rear wall of the inner room has been truncated and replaced with a 20th-century stair in the passage. Rear left and right lean-tos are likely later additions. Plans from before the 19th century suggest a second range was once attached at an angle to the main range, adjoining the lower end. The front of the house is asymmetrical, with four windows on each floor. The right-hand front door has a 20th-century porch with a segmental pediment. The first floor windows are 4-light timber mullioned windows with octagonal mullions, and contain 2-pane casements dating from the late 19th or early 20th century. The ground floor windows are late 19th or early 20th century 3- and 4-light casements, each with three panes.

The interior retains significant 17th-century features. The hall fireplace has granite ashlar jambs and a chamfered timber lintel with step stops. Two cross beams are also chamfered with step stops; the third beam, which is above the partition to the passage, is chamfered and stopped on both sides. There are remnants of a plaster cornice. The inner room has a replaced cross beam, an open fireplace with granite ashlar jambs and a chamfered stopped lintel, and a chamfered doorway with large scroll stops. The lower end room features a cross beam with bar stops and a fireplace similar to those found in the hall and inner room. The rear door of the passage has been blocked, and the screen on the hall side of the passage is made up of 17th-century panelling, including some carved sections. Several first-floor doorways are chamfered and stopped. The roof is supported by five jointed cruck trusses with cambered collars, threaded purlins and a threaded ridge. It represents an unusual survival of a likely single-build 17th-century house with considerable survival of interior features. According to Alcock, it is “a very good example” of the period.