Rosecare Farmhouse South

Farmhouse. Dating from the 17th century, it was partly remodelled in the 18th century, with a 17th/18th century outbuilding incorporated into the house in the 1960s, and 20th-century additions. The construction is of cob and slatestone rubble, with the rear wing roughcast rendered and one range slate-hung. Slate roofs are present throughout. The building originally had a rear courtyard plan. The main range is one room deep, with gable end stacks, and a wing to the rear right forming an L-plan. The incorporation of a rear left outbuilding creates the third side of the present rear courtyard plan. The two-storey, two-window front range is now facing a garden. The front is rendered to ground-floor sill level, with slate hanging above. A 20th-century off-centre door is flanked by renewed casements. Three 2-light first-floor casements with glazing bars are renewed and likely enlarged. A blocked door on the rear wing, opposite the courtyard entrance, features a higher floor level to the heated rear room. A 20th-century French window provides courtyard access to the rear wing. The rear of the main range has a glazed ground-floor opening to the left and a tall early 19th-century round-headed sash stair window, each with nine lights. The outbuilding to the rear left, believed to have been a malthouse, was substantially restored in the 1960s with altered floor levels. It has a hipped roof where it joins the main range, is two storeys high, four windows wide, and has a projecting bay in the centre of the courtyard side. A recent door provides current access, situated below a slate and timber lintel. A ground floor round-headed, 20th-century Georgian-style window is to the right of the door. A blocked entrance exists at the rear gable end of the malthouse. The rear right room has closely spaced ceiling beams. Massive fireplace beams are found in the gable end fireplaces. The ground floor room to the right of the main range has 18th-century ceiling beams with bead moulding. Two circa 18th-century ground floor partition walls are made of unjointed uprights and horizontals, plastered between. Late 18th/early 19th century six-panel stair hall doors feature low, wide middle rails; one is repaired and rehung. Roof trusses in the main range have rough chamfers to the principals and pronounced cambered collars. Principals in the rear wing have rough chamfers and straight collars. Upper storey of the malthouse retains 17th/18th-century exposed principals. Late 17th/early 18th-century cupboard doors with a diamond motif are in the first-floor room at the right gable end of the main range. A slatted courtyard is present.