Description

SW 73 SE BUDOCK

3/7 Higher Penjerrick

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II

Cottage ornee. Guest cottage to former Penjerrick house, now a private house. Circa
mid C19. Built for the Fox family. Painted rubble walls, granite sills. Asbestos
slate hipped roof (formerly thatched).
Plan: T-shaped plan. 2 linked reception rooms at the front; stair hall in small
wing at right angles behind the middle.. Original kitchen in the basement under the
reception rooms. Gothic style features.
Exterior: Single storeys over basement plus attic. Unaltered elevations except that
some of the glazing bars and most of the glass in the windows has been replaced in
the C20. Symmetrical 2 window east front (without a doorway). 2-centred arched
windows with corbelled rubble arches. 3-light windows with Perpendicular style
tracery and Y tracery. C20 attic windows are under hipped dormers. Right-hand
(north-north-east) entrance front has window on the left and doorway on the right.
Original arched planked door (with wooden nails arranged in a pattern) in original
moulded frame. Window on the left is the most complete of all the original windows
and has some original coloured leaded glass in the tracery.
Interior: Simple interior has original wooden Gothic style screen with pointed-
arched panelled double doors between the 2 principal rooms and there are shutters
with beaded panels to the window near the doorway. Basement and attic not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW7783430715

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613821

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)