Crasken Farmhouse Including Adjoining Gate Piers, Walls, Gate And Steps At West Entrance To Garden And Coach House Adjoining At East End Of House

Crasken Farmhouse with adjoining gate-piers, walls, gate and steps at west entrance to garden and coach house adjoining at east end of house.

This farmhouse dates from the 17th century on a probably older site, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is built of granite rubble with some granite dressings, and has grouted scantle slate roofs. Granite rubble stacks rise over the gable ends of the principal range, while a brick chimney sits over the gable end of the rear wing and another serves the rear outshut on the right.

The building has an overall L-shaped plan. The main original range contains a large hall and kitchen at its lower left end and a fairly large parlour on the right, with a small unheated room possibly once existing on the left of the parlour, now the entrance hall. Behind the entrance hall is a stair projection containing a remodelled 18th-century stair, now surrounded by a 19th-century single-storey lean-to along half of the rear. An 18th or early 19th-century kitchen wing extends at right angles behind the original hall and kitchen. A 19th-century lean-to occupies the left-hand end, and a large coach house stands at the right-hand end. The coach house opens to a former stable yard at the rear and is built into the bank at the right end, with its attic loft accessible through a doorway from the bank.

The exterior presents two storeys with a slightly irregular four-window south-south-east front, featuring granite lintels over the openings. A blocked doorway exists left of centre, with the present doorway probably being a former window opening. Windows above the doorways are smaller with circa early 19th-century hornless sashes with margin panes. Other windows have tripartite sashes in wide openings, with similar design in the first floor openings (the far left being a 20th-century copy) and ground floor windows having larger panes. The front wall appears to have been remodelled in both the 18th and 19th centuries. The old door has glazing to the top panel. The left-hand wall of the rear wing features a circa early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash to the ground floor and possibly an older 16-pane horizontally-sliding sash above. The coach house has an open front carried on iron stanchions, with a corrugated iron roof.

Interior features include large fireplaces in the hall and kitchen, and the parlour. The hall and kitchen fireplace opening is spanned by a chamfered reused ship's timber with treenails, with a large 17th or 18th-century granite domed oven at either side. The granite parlour fireplace has straight chamfered jambs and lintels. The stair incorporates probably reused 18th-century turned balusters but circa late 19th-century newels and handrail. Floors are old with some wide floorboards. There is one 18th-century two-panel door, with others being 19th century. The roof structure dates from circa the late 19th century.

The gate-piers, steps, flanking walls, gate and railings date from circa mid-to-late 19th century. They are built of dressed granite and granite rubble, featuring a wrought-iron gate and railings with cast-iron finials. The narrow gateway is flanked by square-on-plan piers and low convex quadrant-on-plan walls linked to higher terminal walls adjoining the farmhouse on the left and the former bailiff's cottage on the right. The gate-piers have monolithic shafts and steep pyramidal caps. Walls have sloping copings. The three steps are of dressed granite. The gate features scrolled detail.