Description

SW 84 SW KEA PENWETHERS

2/177 Penwethers Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Built 1831 for Michael Dunstan. Killas rubble walls with slate sills,
shallow brick arches and freestone keystones. Half-hipped slurried scantle slate
roof with brick chimneys over side walls.
Plan of 2 equal reception rooms flanking central vestibule passage leading to small
central stair hall between narrower rear service rooms.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south front with central round-headed brick arched
doorway and date and builders initials inscribed on keystone. Circa early C20 ledged
door with blind fanlight over (probably originally glazed). Circa late C19 early C20
4-pane sashes.
Interior is little altered with original L-stair with stick balusters and turned
newels, 4-panel doors, moulded ceiling cornice and band to left-hand room (parlour),
moulded ceiling beams to right-hand room (living-room) and bread oven to back
kitchen behind.
Although with later sashes this house is still very complete and particularly
interesting with building date and initials of builder.

Listing NGR: SW8038043950

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613950

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)