Tolcarne Merock Farmhouse With Attached Walls And Farm Building

MAWGAN-IN-PYDAR SW 86 NE 1/96 Tolcarne Merock Farmhouse with attached walls and farm building - II

Farmhouse with attached walls and farm building. Early C19, with few later alterations. Slatestone rubble with stone dressings. Bitumenised slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks with brick shafts. The walls are in stone rubble. The attached farm building, possibly a shippon, is in stone rubble with hipped slate roof. Plan: Double depth plan house, with central entrance and principal room to front left and right, each heated from a gable end stack. Kitchen and former dairy to rear, with rear stair hall. The wall attached to right, enclosing an area to the right side of the house, about 15 metres wide and about 25 metres long. The wall is continued along the front to enclose a garden in front of the house, with a gateway opposite the front door. The farm building is attached to rear right of the wall attached at the right side of the house. Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front; all windows are 16-pane sashes with segmental arch and keystone. Central half-glazed C20 door with segmental arch and keystone. The left side of the house has attached single storey rubble former dairy with corrugated iron roof. The rear of the house has first floor 16-pane sash to right and left, with round arched stair light with radial glazing bars. Ground floor C20 glazed door and two C20 sashes with glazing bars. The wall attached to right has rubble coping, about 4 metres high; it is ramped down to the front range where there is a C20 gate with roughly hewn granite piers. This wall is returned towards the front right of the house. The wall is continued to enclose the garden at the front of the house, with a flight of granite steps and pair of rubble piers with small pyramidal caps. The wall is returned to meet the front left of the house. The shippon at the rear has 2 doors and 2 windows at ground floor with shutters to windows and brick segmental arches. Two 2-light 8-pane casements at first floor with central loading door. The left end has wide double doors with brick segmental arch and 4-pane sash above. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW8581266304