Carminowe Farmhouse

SW 62 SE MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE

3/119 Carminowe Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse. Circa 1860. Shale rubble brought to course, dressed granite plinth, quoins, sills, jambstones, lintels and porch. Mostly asbestos slate roofs with brick chimneys with cornices over gable ends. L-shaped plan incorporating integral rear service wing at right angles to rear, right, plus single storey outhouse earth closet with hipped scantle slate roof at rear left. Front range has parlour, left, and wider living room/parlour right, passage between leading to stair hall and further passage within wing to left of large internally and externally ventilated pantry and leading to back kitchen with principal fireplace. Back door into this passage from rear courtyard. Two storeys. Regular 4 window east front with entrance doorway under 2nd from left 1st floor window. Original 6-panel door within shallow dressed granite open fronted porch with rectangular monolith columns on plinths surmounted by simple entablature. Original 12-pane hornless sashes. The other elevations, like the front are unaltered since built and retain their original windows and doors. There is a reused late medieval trefoil-headed window in the gable end (west) of the service wing. Interior retains all its original carpentry and joinery including 6-panel doors and open-well open-string stick-baluster stair with mahogany handrail scrolled over newel. Stone flagged floors to passages and service wing. From the C13 Carminowe was an important manor and many medieval fragments from the original house survive. A remarkably complete and unaltered house linked to a fine contemporary planned group of farm buildings.

Listing NGR: SW6651223982