Chargot House

Chargot House is a house built in 1826, possibly incorporating parts of an earlier dwelling, with the entrance relocated in the early 20th century. It was constructed for John Lethbridge and features an ashlar facade with a local slate roof. The building has decorative pierced parapets on the returns and coped verges, along with rendered stacks. It is a double pile house with a service wing at the rear, standing two storeys tall with an asymmetrical four-bay frontage. The first and third bays project as gable ends, while the end bay on the right is gabled and flanked by tourelles, both topped with pyramid stone roofs. Above the original entrance bay, which now contains a three-light window, are rectangular recessed panels. The entrance has been moved to the second bay on the left and features a 20th-century door with a glazed verandah between the projecting bays.

The left return of the house is full height and includes single-storey semi-circular bays with decorative pierced parapets. The service wing extends to the right, with a long left return that is slate-hung on the left. There is a projecting dining room bay that is gabled and flanked by tourelles, with blocked or blind windows on the upper storey. To the right, there is a full-height canted bay with a tournelle, and exaggerated cinquefoil-headed cusping on the ground floor, leading to a slate-roofed bay window.

Inside, the house features a good early 18th-century stair with turned balusters, a cut string, and a panelled dado, which has been reset from a farmhouse at Withiel Florey. Additionally, there is a Grinling Gibbons style overmantel that has been cut down and reset as a chimney piece in the hall, imported from a house in Wiltshire.