Tolcarne Merock Farmhouse With Attached Walls And Farm Building

This is an early 19th-century farmhouse with attached walls and a farm building. It is constructed of slatestone rubble with stone dressings, and has a bitumenised slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gable ends. The walls are of stone rubble. Brick chimney shafts rise from gable end stacks. There is an attached farm building, possibly a shippon, built of stone rubble with a hipped slate roof.

The farmhouse has a double-depth plan, with a central entrance and principal rooms to the front left and right, each heated by a gable-end stack. A kitchen and former dairy are located to the rear, along with a rear stair hall. A high stone rubble wall, approximately 4 metres high with a rubble coping, runs along the right side of the house, creating an enclosed area roughly 15 metres wide and 25 metres long. This wall extends to the front of the house, forming a garden enclosed by a gateway opposite the front door. The shippon is attached to the rear right of the wall on the right side of the house.

The main facade is symmetrical, with two storeys and three windows. All windows are 16-pane sashes with segmental arches and keystones. A half-glazed door, also with a segmental arch and keystone, is centrally placed. A single-storey former dairy, constructed of rubble with a corrugated iron roof, is attached to the left side of the house. The rear of the house features first-floor 16-pane sash windows to the left and right, and a round-arched stair light with radial glazing bars. Ground floor C20 glazed doors and two C20 sashes with glazing bars are also present.

The wall attached to the right includes a 20th-century gate with roughly hewn granite piers. It curves back towards the front right of the house and continues to enclose the front garden, featuring a flight of granite steps and a pair of rubble piers topped with small pyramidal caps. The wall returns to meet the front left of the house.

The shippon has two doors and two ground-floor windows with shutters and brick segmental arches. Two 2-light 8-pane casements are positioned on the first floor, along with a central loading door. The left end of the shippon has wide double doors under a brick segmental arch, with a 4-pane sash window above.

The interior of the farmhouse has not been inspected.