Trannack Mill Cottage, Including Wall And Bollards To The Front

SW 62 NE SITHNEY

8/263 Trannack Mill Cottage, including - wall and bollards to the front

GV II

Miller's house with attached cottage and including wall and bollards at the front. Circa early C18. Granite moorstone rubble with dressed grantie quoins, jambstones and ground floor lintels, slate sills. Asbestos slate roofs, the roof over the original house steeper (probably originally thatched) and with a dressed granite chimney stack over each gable end; brick chimney over the left hand gable end of the cottage, left. Plan: now a long shallow depth range built near a steep slope at the rear and comprising: 1 room wide double-depth cottage, left with single storey lean-to, far left; 2 room plan original house, middle, and a single storey former cartshed or forge, right. The house has a wider room right, probably the hall/kitchen and narrower room left, probably the parlour and between the rooms is an entrance lobby and stair. The cartshed has been converted to domestic accommodation in the C20. 2 storeys. Overall 3 window front of cottage and house: the cottage, left, is a 1 window front and has a doorway on its right; the house has a nearly symmetrical 2 window front with the doorway left of middle but nearly central to the window openings which are grouped towards the left. C20 doors and windows in the original openings. The cartshed, right, has C20 windows and door in altered oepnings. Interior not inspected. At the front of the house is a raised pavement with granite monolithic bollards along its edge; in front of the door are iron railings and on the right hand side a wall constructed of large granite monoliths. This house is not enhanced by its C20 windows and doors but the robust nature of its granite construction and its fine stone chimneys are particularly notable features.

Listing NGR: SW6651029912