Penrho Hall

Penrho Hall is an asymmetrical house combining Georgian detail with an overall Gothic-influenced form. It comprises 2 and 3 storeys with an attic across 4 unequal bays, constructed of coursed hammer-dressed stone with a slate roof behind coped gables on moulded kneelers and stone stacks positioned to the centre and ends.

The rear elevation retains carved lions on the end kneelers. The 3-storey service bay displays an apex ball finial to the front, with a similar finial missing to the rear. The entrance front faces north and features wedge lintels to the windows, which are predominantly hornless sashes, and a sill band to the upper storey running across the centre and left-hand bays. The doorway is offset left in the bay left of centre, housed in an ashlar surround with a simple pediment above the first-floor sill band. It has a keyed round arch and contains a recessed fielded-panel door with fanlight. Upper right of the doorway is a 12-pane hornless sash window. The left end incorporates a projecting gabled bay with 12-pane sashes, horned in the lower storey and hornless above.

The two right-hand bays comprise the original service rooms. The bay right of centre is 3-storey; its lower storey is recessed beneath a corbel table and has a 16-pane sash window. The middle storey contains two 8-pane sash windows under drip moulds, and the upper storey has similar but paired sash windows under a linked drip mould. The 2½-storey right end bay has a hipped roof and sits in line with the lower storey of the adjacent bay. It features a 16-pane sash window offset left in the lower storey, with a pivoting 4-pane window beneath the eaves above. A large hipped roof dormer, slate-hung, contains a 2-light casement.

The left end wall is banded between storeys and has a 2-pane horned sash window in the side wall of the gabled left-hand bay, set back to the left where the elevation is gabled. The rear or garden front displays a bay structure and details similar to the front, with principal rooms on the right side and service rooms to the left. The two right-hand bays contain upper-storey small-pane tripartite hornless sash windows with a sill band; the lower storey has inserted French doors serving an added conservatory. The 3-storey service bay left of centre is recessed in the lower two storeys, while the upper storey sits on a corbel table and aligns with bays further right. The lower storeys contain 16-pane sash windows, while the upper storey has paired 8-pane horned sash windows under a hood mould. The left-hand bay aligns with the bay to its right and has inserted French doors, a 6-pane horned sash window above, and in its large roof dormer a 2-light casement.

The right end wall of the service wing has, in the lower storey, a 16-pane hornless sash window lower left and a half-lit door with fixed glazed right side panel—both with leaded lights—to its right. The upper storey contains a 2-light small-pane casement. A gabled projection abutting the right-hand angle has a 2-light casement facing the service wing doorway. Abutting this at right angles is a longer added single-storey snecked-rubble projection, which facing the garden has a boarded door to the right and windows to the centre and left under large rubble lintels.

Internally, the central entrance hall retains an open-well stair with wreathed handrail. The principal rooms beyond have been combined into a single room, retaining a neo-classical chimneypiece.