Little Sellan Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Farmhouse.
Little Sellan Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twisted-bailey-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Sellan Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 18th century, incorporating dressed stone from a 17th-century house, including a stone dated 1666. It was remodeled and probably extended around the early 19th century. The front features granite ashlar, with slate hanging on the left-hand side and at the left gable end, while the rest is made of granite rubble with granite dressings. The roofs are covered with grouted scantle slate, although the front has been replaced with asbestos slate. Brick chimneys are located over the gable ends and the axial wall of the rear left-hand wing.
The farmhouse has an overall U-shaped plan, consisting of two rooms at the front with a central passage. The parlour is on the left, with a later single-storey two-room service range at right angles behind it. There is an L-plan stair on the left of the passage, and a large kitchen/living room on the right that features a large fireplace and a heated outshut, with a chamber above it.
The exterior is two storeys high and nearly symmetrical, with a three-window south-south-east front and a central round-headed doorway. The ashlar masonry up to the ground floor sill level is of a different color, possibly surviving from an older front. The window openings in the slate-hung part on the left are spaced farther from the doorway than those on the right, and the ground floor opening on the right is spanned by a flat arch. There is a 20th-century panelled door with a blind masonry fanlight above. The windows are early 20th-century horned sashes with vertical glazing bars. The rear wall features reused 17th-century masonry, including a moulded and panelled lintel with the date 1666 in relief, a moulded jambstone with a cross stop, and two heads or sills from two-light mullioned windows.
Inside, the kitchen fireplace has a moulded and panelled chimney-piece, likely from the 18th century. Other interior features date from the early 19th-century remodeling, including moulded ceiling beams, an architrave with nail-head decoration and corner blocks, and two-panel doors to the chambers. Some parts of the roof structure may be from the 18th century, but much of it has been renewed.
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