Polruddon, the ruynes of an auntient howse somtymes the howse of John
Polruddon, whoe was taken out of his bed by the Frenche in the time of
Henry the 7. and caried away with violence, and then began the howse
to decaye, and Penwarn, the howse of Mr. Otwell Hill, was buylded with
Polruddon stones. The howse (as by the ruyns it appeareth) was a large
howse, and by the arched freestone windowes which it had curiouslye
wroughte, testifieth it to be for the time elegant. [Polruddon was
afterwards rebuilt, and became a seat of the Scobells. It belonged to
the late Sir Christopher Hawkins, Bart. who was descended from that
family in the female line. It is occupied as a farm house. _Lysons_]