- Heritage

Bramble Villa East

The Rev. Hudson Heaven built the original Bungalow in 1893, partly as an overflow for Millcombe and partly as accommodation for Mr and Mrs Ward, the coachman/gardener and cook. Visiting Heaven children with their nurse would stay and eat here whilst Mr Heaven used the sitting room as his study. At that time, the Bungalow was connected to Millcombe by telephone…

Bramble Villa West

The Rev. Hudson Heaven built the original Bungalow in 1893, partly as an overflow for Millcombe and partly as accommodation for Mr and Mrs Ward, the coachman/gardener and cook. Visiting Heaven children with their nurse would stay and eat here whilst Mr Heaven used the sitting room as his study. At that time, the Bungalow was connected to Millcombe by telephone…

Bridge Cottage

Bridge Cottage, although itself dating only from the 1820s or ’30s, is typical of the kind of building which must always have existed in Peppercombe: smallholders’ and labourers’ cottages, built of the most locally available materials, developing over the centuries from humble single-storeyed dwellings into decent two-storeyed cottages such as we have here. The materials most readily to hand were rubble stone, cob (mud mixed with straw) and thatch, and it is of these that Bridge Cottage is built, with brick for the chimneys, made as tall as possible to provide a draft in this sheltered place…

Brinkburn Mill

Brinkburn Mill stands within the ancient precincts of Brinkburn Priory. Part of the medieval Priory wall, now only a few feet high, runs between the Mill and the river, on the south side. The main gateway to the Priory, of which remains were discovered while the restoration of the Mill was in progress, lies buried just to the east. The Augustinian canons of Brinkburn were endlessly pestered by Scottish raiders, and needed a stout wall and a strong gatehouse…

Bromfield Priory Gatehouse

The history of Bromfield Priory Gatehouse falls into three main periods. The first of these is medieval and to it belongs most of the lower, stone, part of the building; the arch itself and the sides of the gate passage, and the walls to the left (or north) of it. The walls south of the gate arch are later, but may contain medieval masonry - narrow windows, or loops, in the gate passage show that there were originally rooms both sides of it…

Bush Cottage

Bush Cottage is built of timber that analysis shows was felled in 1548. It stands on the landholding known as The Bush (variously the ‘estate’ or ‘piece’), sheltered by a remnant of the ancient Forest of Wyre and facing south-east towards the Clee Hills among ancient field patterns. It lies in the township of Chorley, part of Stottesdon parish and its very survival indicates that this was a sturdy yeoman’s house of some quality…

Big St John's

Against the battlemented wall dividing St. John’s Valley from the ‘Common’, there used to be a flat-roofed battlemented farm shed. It has been used at different times as a stable, a hen house, a cow shed, a piggery and a hay store…

Calverley Old Hall

A family called Scot was living in Calverley in the 1160s and was later to take the name of the place as its own. At an early date they began to put all their family and estate papers into a large chest. For 500 years both the family and the papers remained here in Calverley, in a house that naturally grew and changed over the centuries. So, before 1300, they had already built a small stone hall house for themselves, of which traces survive…

The Captain's House

You will no longer find a village called Porthmeor on a map and the name has passed instead to one of Cornwall’s most famous surfing beaches, a few miles round the headland in St Ives. Lower Porthmeor, in its grouping and siting and the forces that have gone into its continuation, is representative of many other hamlets on this northern shelf of Penwith, and is also among the most attractive of all the groups of buildings along a visually staggering stretch of coast…

The Carpenter's Shop

This appears on the 1840 tithe map as standing on land belonging to John Tape, a carpenter then living in Ford Cottage (Tapes lived in Coombe for generations, the last only leaving in 1968). Its roughly dressed stone and flat brick arches are typical of the early 19th century. The windows, with vertical bars and overlapping glass, are of the kind found in many workshops and industrial buildings…