Gilly Farmhouse And Front And Rear Garden Walls

Gilly Farmhouse, along with its front and rear garden walls, dates from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. The building is constructed from roughly coursed serpentine rubble with snecks between the courses, featuring dressed quoins and jambstones, slate sills, and dressed granite lintels at the front. The rear is mostly rendered cob above the ground floor sill level, with wooden lintels over the openings and part of the left-hand gable end. The roof is a heavily grouted scantle slate design with red clay ridge tiles and brick chimneys at each gable end, each containing three flues.

The farmhouse has a double depth plan, consisting of a small parlour on the left with another small parlour behind it, a through passage located considerably left of the middle (with a rear doorway now converted to a window), a central rear stair hall, and a large kitchen/living room on the right with the main hearth. Behind the kitchen is a back kitchen/dairy, and there is a single-storey wash house or bakehouse extension at a right angle to the rear of this.

The building is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical three-window south front, although the fenestration is grouped towards the left, with the doorway positioned left of the middle of the fenestration. The entrance has a four-panel door that has been later glazed at the top panels. The windows consist of late 19th to early 20th century four-pane sashes in the original small square openings, which are smaller on the first floor. The rear has one original 12-pane two-light horizontal sliding sash window on the ground floor to the right and possibly an original latticed two-light ventilated window on the ground floor to the left.

The interior has not been inspected. Surrounding the farmhouse are rubble walls that create an irregular partly cobbled enclosure at the front and a rectangular enclosure at the rear. The garden walls feature granite monolith elliptically-headed granite gale piers, scantle slate coping with a clay tile ridge on the higher wall at the front, and dressed granite copings on the rear wall. This farmhouse is a notable example of the double depth plan, with the kitchen side being significantly wider than the parlour.