Tolcarne Attached Pighouses And Garden Wall To Front

A house with attached pigshouses and a garden wall, likely originating in the late 16th century, with 19th-century alterations and extensions on an earlier site. The house was extended around the mid-19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, primarily granite and blue elvan, with dressed quoins. The roofs are slate hung, with a gable end on the left and a hipped end on the right of the main range, and gable ends to the parallel rear range. There is a slate-hung stone rubble end stack on the left and an axial stack to the right of the centre.

The original plan probably comprised two rooms and a cross passage, with the two rooms heated by end stacks. A service range was added across the rear in the mid-19th century, incorporating a kitchen, larder, and dairy. Around the early 19th century, a range of pigshouses was added to the right-hand end.

The main front presents an almost symmetrical facade with an outshut extension. It has a 3:1 window arrangement. A central entrance has a rendered porch with a hipped roof, containing a late 19th or 20th-century door within a chamfered 19th-century frame. There is a 19th-century 2-light casement window to the left and a probable replacement 2-light casement on the right, with three 19th-century 2-light casements on the first floor. A 2-storey range is set slightly back on the right, with a 19th-century plank door on the ground floor and a 19th-century 2-light casement on the first floor. The rear range is boarded above ground floor level. Granite lintels are above the ground floor openings. A row of pigshouses is attached to the right-hand end, featuring three pairs of openings with granite jambs. A stone rubble garden wall runs along the front, with a mounting block present.

Interior remodelling occurred in the late 1860s, including partial boarding of the left-hand room, potential insertion of a stair in the passage, and replacement of ground floor doors. The left-hand room retains slightly chamfered ceiling beams with straight cut stops and a chamfered 17th-century timber lintel to the fireplace with run-out stops. The right-hand room has a boarded ceiling that obscures some heavy chamfered ceiling beams. The fireplace has a roughly cut granite surround. A door opening leads into the outshut extension. The mid-19th-century larder retains its salting trough, hooks, and slatted ventilation panels, while the dairy is complete with a large central slate table and slate benches. The roof structure was not inspected. Inside the outshut, three heavy chamfered beams may have been reset, and there are several blocked openings in the right-hand end wall.

The manor of Tolcarne passed from the Tolcarne family to George Kekewich, and was sold in 1630 by John Kekewich to Richard Spoure of Trebartha.