Boden Vean Farmhouse, Adjoining Farm Buildings And Gate Piers

Boden Vean Farmhouse, along with its adjoining farm buildings and gate piers, is likely of 17th-century origin, but was remodelled in the 18th century and extended in the early to mid-19th century. The west front has slate hanging over studwork, while the rest of the building is primarily constructed from painted rubble and cob walls. The roofs are covered in scantle slate, with brick chimneys at each side-wall gable end and over the rear wing. A brick chimney is also axial to the rear wing, and cast iron ogee gutters are present.

The original design was probably a three-room plan with a barn attached to the lower (east) end. The house was extended in the late 18th or early 19th century with an outshut, which now exists as a service wing at a right angle to the left-rear of a two-room house added to the upper (west) end. A shippon was added in the mid-19th century, also at a right angle to the lower end of the original house, to the north.

The west front is symmetrical, with three windows and a central doorway. The original six-panel door features flush beaded bottom panels. The windows are original hornless sashes with glazing bars and marginal panes. The sash boxes are flush with the walls and have moulded architraves; their design is similar to that found at Mudgeon Cottage and Boskenna in St. Martin parish.

The rear wing has an irregular arrangement of openings, including 12-pane sashes and casements. One window is wider, featuring a lattice ventilator and horizontal sliding shutters to two of its three lights. A ledged door is positioned towards the left side. The barn retains good cob texture, with the roofline raised circa early 19th century. Oak lintels are above the original openings, and there is an external flight of stone steps along the lower end of the rear wall.

A probable 17th-century pair of granite gate posts, each with five sockets for removable bars, adjoin the northeast corner of the barn. The shippon is built of unpainted rubble with granite dressings. The interior of the house shows few alterations since the 19th century and retains some 18th-century features. The farmhouse and its outbuildings form a notably unaltered group in the parish, and the barn may be as old as the house itself. The gate piers are a rare survival.