Borease Farmhouse Including Front Garden Wall And Gate Piers To South

SW 72 NW CONSTANTINE

8/6 Borease Farmhouse including front - garden wall and gate-piers to south

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa late C17, altered internally in circa late C19. Dressed granite. Grouted scantle slate roof with gable ends. Tall dressed granite gable end stacks with dressed granite weathered caps, the right hand kitchen stack is larger. Plan: Double depth plan with 2 front rooms of equal size heated from gable end fireplaces and with a cross-passage between the 2 rooms. The kitchen is to the right and the parlour to the left where the ground level is lower. There are 2 shallow unheated service rooms at the back in the integral outshut which probably also contained the staircase at the centre. Most of the partition on the right side of the passage has been removed. Exterior: 2-storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front. Three C19 12-pane horizontally sliding sashes on the first floor, the centre window is smaller. Two C20 2-light casements on the ground floor in C17 chamfered granite frames, the lintels with stoolings for 2 mullions which are missing. Central doorway with chamfered granite frame with convex stops and original granite open-fronted porch with chamfered jambs and a cyma moulded cornice to the eaves of the grouted scantle slate lean-to roof. The roof at the back is carried down over the 1 storey and attic integral outshut; its first floor centre window has a chamfered granite frame with stoolings for mullions and a small C19 2-light casement window inserted below. A single light window to the left with a chamfered frame and a C19 single-light 6-pane attic window and 2 similar smaller windows in the left hand west end of the outshut. Interior: Only partly inspected. There is a short section of moulded plank partition on the right hand side of the former passage which is now part of the kitchen to to right. The kitchen fireplace is concealed. The internal joinery is largely late C19 including panelled doors on the ground floor and apparently plank doors on the first floor. The roof structure was not inspected. Including the front garden area wall of dressed granite and granite rubble with dressed coping. It encloses a retangular front garden area with 2 tall square-on- plan granite monolith gate-piers at the front in line with the front doorway of the house. Borease is an early example at vernacular level of a double depth plan and has been very little altered since the C19. Borease was a holding in the manor of Tucoys, the only manor in Constantine mentioned in the Domesday Book. Source: Charles Henderson, A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall. p 150

Listing NGR: SW7149329396