Type House Town or city Lesnewth Completed 17th Century | Classification Grade II listed. Country England | |
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History
Penpol was once home to Churton Fairman, better known as Mike Raven a well-known radio DJ who presented on various pirate radio stations and on BBC Radio 1. In 1973, Penpol lay derelict and had been used as a pig-house for many years. Fairman bought the building and converted it into a functioning cottage for himself and his wife, Mandy. There he turned his hand to sculpture, creating stone and wood carvings until he moved in 1980.
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The house
Penpol is a Grade II listed cottage, having been added to the listed buildings register on 20 July, 1987 as a "particularly unspoilt seventeenth century house". The property has been considerably altered over the years but was originally erected in the mid-seventeenth century. It is built from rubble stone and has a cement-washed slated roof with gable ends and projecting chimney-stacks on each end. The front of the house has three nearly symmetrical windows and there are signs that there was a porch at one time. All the windows on the front of the house date from the twentieth century, with only the main door frame still with a seventeenth century lintel. At the rear, there are two seventeenth century lintels for windows, but one has been blocked up. The house has two rooms with a passage between, each heated by a fireplace with a granite lintel. The wall to the left of the passage is substantial but the partition to the right has been removed and the rear door blocked up. The beams supporting the upper floor are slightly chamferred and roughly cut. The left room has a twentieth century extension at the back. The staircase is probably twentieth century but occupies the same position as the original staircase. The upper floor and attic were not available for inspection at the time of listing.