Penlanole

Penlanole

A late-Georgian style villa of two storeys with attic and eight bays, constructed from rubble stone with a slate roof and tall roughcast chimney stacks painted white. The building is listed at Grade II.

The west-facing entrance front is rendered and painted white. The three bays to the left of centre are brought forward with a radial-glazed oculus set within a gable. In the lower storey, a tripartite hornless sash window to the left extends down to ground level, while a 12-pane horned sash window to the right replaces a round-headed window shown in a 1910 photograph. Above are three 12-pane horned sash windows, the central one with a blind round head. Set back to the left is a blank bay (where the 1910 photograph shows a castellated porch) with a tripartite hornless sash window further left, also carried down to ground level. In the upper storey, each bay has a 12-pane sash window, horned to the right. Set back to the right of centre are replacement French doors and two 12-pane sash windows within the two early 20th-century bays further right, with three similar horned sashes above in the upper storey.

The two-window right gable end has 12-pane horned sashes on the left side in each storey and corresponding 4-pane horned sashes on the right side. The left gable end features a wooden cross window in the upper left.

To the left is the side wall of a lower northeast rear wing, constructed from whitewashed rubble with a slate roof. It has an external stone chimney stack with roughcast shaft and a 3-light window to its left. Attached at right angles to the end of the northeast wing is a garden wall, which is taller and embattled above a tall round arch with rock-faced dressings and oculus above (overgrown at the time of inspection). Behind this wall, attached to the gable end of the northeast wing, is a rubble-stone lean-to with corrugated-iron roof and open front, featuring rock-faced dressings and radial-glazed circular windows beneath the eaves on its side walls. On the right side is another lean-to with corrugated-iron roof, open-fronted on the left side with a workshop on the right (under a temporary plastic roof at the time of inspection), featuring a boarded door and 3-light window.

The rear of the house comprises two courtyards formed by the lower northeast and east rear wings. The northeast wing's courtyard-facing side wall has boarded doors right of centre under a stone segmental head, a 2-light window to the right with mesh appropriate for a cold store, and two 16-pane hornless sash windows in the upper storey (larger to the left and smaller to the right of centre). The adjoining rear of the main house is brick with weatherboarding to the upper storey, featuring a boarded door under a narrow overlight and a fixed window to its right with hexagonal small panes. The upper storey has a 4-pane horned sash window.

The north side wall of the east wing has rock-faced stone lintels to a fixed 4-pane window to the left and 4-pane horned sash to the right. In the upper storey the wall is weatherboarded to the left end, where there is a 4-pane horned sash window. The gable end is jettied and weatherboarded in the upper storey, with a doorway to the right featuring a boarded door beneath a bracketed canopy.

The south side wall has rock-faced quoins, two 4-pane horned sashes in the lower storey beneath rock-faced lintels, and three similar windows above (the right-hand surrounded by weatherboarding). The adjoining rear wall of the main house has a lean-to porch with boarded door, above which are a 12-pane horned sash window and 2-light casement window, both beneath the eaves with brick jambs. Further left the wall is set back and rendered, having been extended in the early 20th century. It has a 2-light casement in the upper storey above a lean-to shed.

The interior was largely remodelled in the early 20th century. An open-well stair features plain balusters and newels. The two rooms to the left of centre retain ornate carved wooden mantelpieces.