Bosvathick Farmhouse Including Back Yard Walls And Gates

Bosvathick Farmhouse, including back yard walls and gates

Farmhouse on the estate of Bosvathick house, dating to the late 19th century, said to be circa 1880. The building is constructed from coursed and dressed granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, lintels and cills. The roof is scantle slate hipped in two spans at the back, with red clay ridge tiles and deep eaves. Over each side wall are two painted red brick stacks with chamfered corners, brick cogged cornices and clay turned pots.

The plan is triple depth with a square footprint. There are two principal front rooms with a central entrance passage between them leading to the stairwell behind the right-hand room. Behind the deeper left-hand room is a small unheated room of uncertain purpose. At the back are two large service rooms: the dairy to the right, which is deeper than the kitchen to the left. A central back doorway gives direct entry into the kitchen.

The exterior is two storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window south front. The original late 19th-century four-pane sashes sit in openings with plain granite lintels, cills and quoins to the jambs. The central doorway opening is similar, with a shallow rectangular overlight and a panelled door with board applied over it later. The left-hand elevation has one central window on each floor, sashes with slate cills. The right-hand side features a very tall stair window at the centre with a red brick round arch and keystone, containing a sash with coloured glass margin panes. To the right on the ground floor is a large two-light casement to the dairy with glazing bars. The rear elevation is symmetrical and three windows wide. It has late 19th-century sixteen-pane sashes; the centre first-floor window has twelve panes, the ground-floor left a large two-light casement to the dairy with glazing bars. All rear windows have granite lintels and slate cills. At the centre is a small hipped slate roof porch built of brick, possibly a later addition, which contains the original back door behind it.

The back yard features a contemporary granite rubble wall with granite coping and monolithic granite gate-posts with pointed heads. The wrought-iron gate to the back yard and another leading to the farm yard have cross-bracing. The back gate to the garden has fluted cast iron posts and fleur-de-lis finials.

The interior is remarkably unaltered with all internal joinery intact, including panelled doors. The front right-hand room has a black marble chimney-piece. The front left-hand room is unusual in having exposed ceiling joists, a contemporary simple chimney-piece and panelled cupboards. The dog-leg open-string staircase has turned balusters and newels. The kitchen and dairy both have slate floors. The kitchen has exposed ceiling joists and a large fireplace with a bracketed shelf. The dairy has a plastered ceiling and original slate slabs, including one at the centre of the room. The first floor was not inspected but is said to be intact with original chimney-pieces and doors. This represents a remarkably complete and unaltered late 19th-century farmstead built on the small Bosvathick estate.