Kilworthy House

Kilworthy House is a house, now used as a school, dating from 1852. It was rebuilt at that time after a fire, incorporating features from the late 17th and early 19th centuries, with later 19th-century additions to the service wing and a 20th-century addition to the west. The house is constructed of coursed granite rubble with Hurdwick stone dressings, and has slate roofs, hipped over the wings, with two ridge stacks and caps to the main range. It follows a single-depth plan with a central stair hall, and wings to the right and left forming a U-plan, with a rear service wing to the left, extended to create a small rear service courtyard. The central range may be a rebuilding of an earlier house, completely remodelled internally with a front longitudinal passage providing access to the wings.

The house has two storeys and is arranged with a 3:3:3 bay facade. The central three-bay range has 12-pane sashes with splayed heads and keystones at first floor. The ground floor has round-headed 9-pane sashes on either side, with moulded arches and rusticated pilasters, with mask keystones reputedly from Tavistock Abbey. A central porch has a 19th-century copy of a round-headed moulded arch with rusticated pilasters, displaying the date on the keystone, and a 4-panelled door with a blind fanlight, cornice, and raised blocking course. The two-storey canted wings on either side have three 15-pane sashes at ground floor with flat brick arches, and 12-pane sashes at first floor, with a plinth and deep eaves. The left return has a two-storey, three-window 20th-century addition in random rubble, with sashes at first floor and French windows at ground floor. The right return has three windows; one is blind at ground and first floor, while the ground floor has 15-pane sashes and the first floor has 12-pane sashes. The rear elevation has two 12-pane sashes at first floor, and a round-headed sash with played glazing barns illuminating the stair. The ground floor has a door and a 15-pane sash, with a single-storey attached service wing in the centre, and a two-storey service wing to the right with a pyramidal asbestos slate roof. To the right of the single-storey block, the ground floor of the main range has a 4-light casement with a segmental head. The rear two-storey wing has a door in a pitched-roof porch set in the angle, similar 4-light casement at ground floor, a single light and a 9-pane sash under eaves.

Inside, a ground floor room in the front right wing retains late 17th-century panelling with armorial bearings of the Glanvil, Kelly, Manaton, and Manington families, likely reused from an earlier house. Other interior features are of the mid-19th century.