Description

ZENNOR ZENNOR
SW 43 NE
4/339 The Tinners Arms
9.2.88
GV II
Public house. Probably circa early C18 extended in the C19 and C20. Granite rubble
with granite moorstone dressings. Grouted or slurried scantle slate roofs. Dressed
granite stacks over the original gable ends.
Plan: 2 room plan house (now 1 room) with larger hall/kitchen, right, and parlour
over lower ground, left. Possibly there was an unheated middle room for there is a
small blocked window right of the doorway. In the C19 extended on the left and at
right angles to the front, left.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Originally a slightly irregular 2 or 3 window front but left-
hand bay obscured by C19 addition. Doorway left of middle. Window openings are C19
altered or added except for blocked opening right of doorway. C20 door and windows.
Interior: large fireplace, right and small fireplace, left.
D. H. Lawrence stayed at the Tinner's Arms in 1916 with his wife Frieda, while
looking for a cottage to rent. They eventually found Higher Tregerthen (Rananim
q.v.).

Listing NGR: SW4543838502

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Tinner's Arms at Wikipedia
• Tinner's Arms official website
• Wikidata Q7808383

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)