Description

ST ERVAN PENROSE
SW 87 SE
3/177 Penrose Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Probably C17, much enlarged in circa late C17 or early C18. Slate
rubble, left hand part of front roughcast. Delabole slate half-hipped roof with
roughcast end brick stacks. Lower gable-ended roof over the right hand wing has rag-
slate roof with brick gable end stack. Hipped roof to the stair tower at the rear.
Red clay ridge tiles.
Plan: The long right-hand room with a gable end stack is the remains of an earlier,
probably C17, house which was rebuilt or heavily remodelled and heightened at the
left hand end in circa late C17 or early C18. The rebuilt or remodelled left hand
part has 2 rooms at the front, a parlour to the left and a large heated entrance hall
to the right with a stair tower at the back and a dairy in an integral outshut to the
left behind the parlour. The earlier wing to the right became the kitchen, its
fireplace at the right hand end had an oven adjoining before it was demolished
recently. The outshut behind the earlier kitchen wing was being demolished at the
time of this survey in 1987.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 3:2 window front. The symmetrical 3-window range to the left
is the late C17 or early C18 part. It has a roughcast front and late C20 windows,
with top opening lights, in the original openings and a central doorway with a C20
glazed door enclosed within a C20 conservatory. The 2-window range to the right has
a lower roof level and an exposed stone front with an asymmetrical arrangement of
late C20 windows with rendered surrounds and a late C20 door to the left.
The rear elevation is unaltered: Large hipped-roof stair tower at the centre with a
C19 sash with margin panes and an integral outshut to the right with a C20 casement.
To the left of the stair tower an outshut was being demolished (1987). At the far
left end at the back the demolished remains of a projecting oven.
Interior: The entrance hall has fielded 2-panel doors, moulded dado rail and tall
early C18 chimney-piece with a moulded architrave and cornice. The stair tower at
the back of the hall has a fine early C18 open-well staircase with a moulded string
heavy turned balusters and moulded handrail ramped up to square newels. The stair
well ceiling has a heavy moulded plaster cornice. The first floor has fielded 2-
panel doors. The left hand parlour has remains of heavy moulded plaster cornice,
moulded dado rail and a C20 fireplace. The right hand room in the wing has closely
spaced roughly chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops.
During recent alterations a timber fireplace lintel, reused as a window lintel, was
removed; it is cyma moulded with hollow step stops.

Listing NGR: SW8751770819

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507437

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