Farm Buildings And Wall On East Side Of Cow Yard Approximately 200 Metres South Of Godolphin House

SW 63 SW BREAGE GODOLPHIN

4/58 Farm building and wall on east side of Cow Yard approximately 200 metres south of Godolphin House

GV II

Farmbuilding, probably shippons, including yard walls and pen. First half C19. Granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambs and lintels. Cement-washed scantle slate roof in 2 phases with gable ends and 4 timber louvred pyramid-roofed ridge ventilators (1 with base only). Long rectangular range (facing west) with integral lean-to at rear left (north). Built up the slope, single store, to right (uphill) and 2 storey to left providing fodder store partly in roof (floor removed C20). West front has irregular. arrangement of doors, cart doors and windows with a C20 concrete blockwork lean-to porch added near centre of left hand section. Internal limewash returns on outer face to frame doorways (traditional practice). At the right hand end the outside north wall of the yard and buildings is of earlier construction with some C20 reconstruction. The top end of the yard is enclosed by a cross wall and gate to form a small inner yard, perhaps for calves. Adjoining the north-east corner of the range is an ancient wall dividing the cowyard from the garden and running continuously northwards down to the Bakehouse, part of the rear yard (qv) of the house. There is a doorway in it. Interior : includes C19 roof and some rubble divisions. Part of a group of farm buildings relating to Godolphin House (qv).

Listing NGR: SW6009931755