Lanyon Farmhouse, Including Front Garden Area Wall

GWINEAR-GWITHIAN SW 63 NW 5/2 Lanyon Farmhouse, including front garden area wall

GV II* Farmhouse, front garden walls and gate-piers. Datestone on porch, 1668, possibly earlier core. Built for the Lanyon family. Granite ashlar front, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings. Asbestos slate roofs with gable ends, 2 lateral brick chimneys over rear wall and external stone stack at right hand gable end. Plan: Overall irregular T shaped plan plus 2 storey porch left of middle at front; stair hall in outshut at rear of former through passage and later service wing at right angles behind the room to the right of the porch. There are now 4 rooms in the single depth main front range; the two rooms left of the porch were probably originally a large hall (now a kitchen and small parlour) and the two equal-sized rooms right of the porch were probably both parlours. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 3:1:4 bay north front: 2 storey porch left of middle dated 1668 with coped gable end and with scrolled kneelers; moulded basket-arched doorway; 3-light mullioned window over the doorway rising partly into the gable; square hoodmoulds and Lanyon coat of arms over the doorway with motto: VIVE VT VIVAS. The right-hand ground floor window opening has a flat arch with voussoirs. There is 1 C18 sash with wide glazing bars in the 2nd from right first floor opening, the other windows are circa early C19 sashes, all with 12 panes. Interior: plain interior with earlier features probably hidden; C18 panelled inner porch doorway; circa 1900 stair. There was a C17 or C18 plaster ceiling in the right-hand room until a few years ago (since fallen). First floor and roof structure not inspected. Rubble garden walls enclose on 2 sides a rectangular garden at the front. Aligned with the porch doorway is gateway with dressed granite monolithic piers.

Listing NGR: SW6034237794