Lower Corndon And Lower Corndon Cottage Including Garden Walls Adjoining To Front

This is a house and adjoining cottage, originally a single farmhouse. The cottage dates back to the 17th century, while the main house is a complete rebuild from around 1840. The walls are granite rubble, stuccoed and incised to resemble ashlar on the main house, and whitewashed on the cottage. The chimneys are granite with brick shafts, and the roof is slate, although the cottage was formerly thatched.

The house and cottage are aligned on the same axis, both facing south-south-east. The main house has a double-depth plan, with front and back rooms on either side of a central hall containing a large staircase. The principal rooms are the large front rooms. The cottage, attached to the west end of the main house, has a lower two-room plan, with the main room to the right supported by an original 17th-century stack. A smaller right-end room, now the kitchen, has a 19th-century stack. Both the house and cottage are two storeys high.

The front of the main house originally had a symmetrical arrangement of 19th-century windows with 16 panes. Around 1980, a flat-roofed conservatory was added across the central doorway and the left-hand window was converted into a French window. The cottage has a regular two-window front. The upper-floor windows are 20th-century casements without glazing bars. The ground-floor window on the right is original 17th-century, featuring a three-light granite window with chamfered mullions, a hoodmould, and rectangular panes of leaded glass. A contemporary porch with a monopitch slate roof shelters the doorway to the left. The cottage roof has a hipped end.

Inside the main house, there is a great deal of original joinery detail, including an open string staircase with a mahogany handrail, stick balusters, and turned newel posts. The cottage is largely original from the 17th century. The main room features roughly soffit-chamfered crossbeams and a granite ashlar fireplace with a soffit-chamfered oak lintel and a side oven. The roof is a 20th-century replacement A-frame structure.

A high granite rubble wall extends between the house and cottage, projecting forwards. It includes a stone mounting block on the cottage side and ramps down to return across the front of the house as a low garden wall, where a central 19th-century cast iron spear-headed railed gate is situated.