Penterry House

Penterry House is a house built of roughly squared and coursed red sandstone rubble with yellow ashlar dressings, dating to an unknown period. It has a concrete interlocking tile roof. The building consists of a rectangular three-story block with a two-story barn, potentially once a hayloft over a cowshed, attached in line at the downhill end.

The north elevation (the entrance front) begins with the barn, which is largely plain with two small two-light windows above another, and a lean-to catslide roof added between 1985 and 1995, which covers the first bay of the house. A three-story porch is next, with a blocked doorway on the ground floor. Above this is a corbelled hearth and a small window; the closet also has small two-light windows on the returns. The wall above the porch floor has been rebuilt with a gable and pigeon holes, a change made between 1985 and 1995. The stack for the corbelled hearth below had already gone. To the left of the gable is a tall ridge stack with four diamond-set flues with weathered caps. The next bay has a tall two-light stair window dating from the 1980s, followed by a modern glazed door with a two-light casement set in an elliptical head. A tall two-light casement is present on the ground floor of the next bay, with smaller casements on the first floor and attic, but these are not aligned vertically. The final bay is blind, showing evidence of a blocked window under an oak lintel on the ground floor. The gable end has two windows with dressed heads and another four-flue stack with diamond-set flues. The garden elevation has five windows and a glazed door on the ground floor, and three windows on each of the floors above. All windows are 3 + 3 casements. The low-pitched roof has clearly been reconstructed between the stacks. The barn has a modern cross-framed stone mullioned casement and a door on the ground floor, and four evenly spaced modern windows above.

The house is a three-unit, single-depth cross-passage house. The interior was altered during a restoration between 1985 and 1995, and the main staircase is new. Despite its derelict state prior to 1985 and the subsequent restoration, many historic features remain in situ, although some have been moved and others introduced. These include 17th-century doors (at least one with a cranked head), fireplaces with massive stone lintels, some old floorboards (reused), mostly reconstructed beamed ceilings, and one ceiling with roll-moulded beams. A modern pine staircase, some old panelling, and the closet room over the porch are noteworthy survivals. The original staircase has been reconstructed around a central post with oak treads. The mostly original roof on the lower side of the stack is a principal rafter roof with ties, collars, and two tiers of purlins. The roof between the stacks was rebuilt and not accessible for inspection. The barn section has an open interior, bearing little relation to its original layout, and features a principal rafter roof with ties and two tiers of purlins.