Mount Pleasant Farmhouse

Mount Pleasant Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse with significant alterations in the late 16th and 17th centuries, and a modernization in the 19th century. It is constructed of whitewashed granite rubble with roughly-shaped quoins, and has granite stacks, one retaining its original granite ashlar chimney shaft; the roof is thatched.

The house is L-shaped and situated on level ground. The main block has a three-room-and-cross-passage plan, although there is no visible rear passage doorway. A small, unheated inner room, likely used as a dairy, is located at the west end. The hall features an axial stack backing onto the passage and a small, unheated service room. A single-room plan parlour block projects at a right angle to the rear of the inner room and features a gable-end stack. This parlour block was formerly used as a separate cottage. The roof of the main block was replaced in the 17th century, obscuring the early development of the house. Originally an open hall house, evidence suggests the inner room was also open to the roof, indicating a possible early 16th-century origin. The house is now two storeys high.

The front elevation features a three-window arrangement (with only one window on the first floor), containing 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. The passage front doorway is centrally positioned and has a 19th-century plank door, with the eaves carried down above it as a hood. The roof is half-hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right. The rear of the main block is blank. The side of the rear parlour wing also has 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars and a late 19th to early 20th-century part-glazed door.

The interior appears largely modernized in the 19th century, but the original layout remains well-preserved. The hall contains a granite ashlar fireplace, and at the upper end, axial joists with rounded ends show evidence of an internal jetty. The hall was floored over in the mid to late 17th century, using a roughly-finished crossbeam. The parlour has a soffit-chamfered axial beam, and the fireplace is blocked by a 19th-century grate. The roof was not inspected, but the bases of the principals in the main block suggest 17th-century A-frame roof trusses. Mount Pleasant is a modestly modernized farmhouse and contributes to a group of attractive listed buildings within the hamlet.