Outbuilding (Former House) 100 Metres West Of Davies Farm House

NORTH TAMERTON SX 39 NW 8/14 Outbuilding (former house) 100 metres west of Davies Farm House

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Farmhouse; used as store. Circa C17 or earlier, extended and remodelled in C18. Slate rubble, original lower end rendered cob. Corrugated iron roof with gabled ends. Probably originally a 3-room and cross or through passage plan, the higher end largely rebuilt to 2-storey, 4 window house with end stacks, the stack at lower end may have been originally the axial stack which would have backed onto the cross passage. C19 and C20 3-light casements central doorway with panelled door. 2 reset stones on front wall 1 inscribed "W.S.", the other has date "1516". Lower end has steeply pitched roof and 3-light chamfered wooden mullion window in gable end, on ground floor. Cob wing at rear with gable end stack and later outshut in the angle, at lower end. Interior not inspected but is said to have plaster overmantle dated 1662. Source: Cornish Buildings Group, G Daw

Listing NGR: SX3138098262