Roscarrack Farm Cottage (Simpson)

SW 73 SE BUDOCK ROSCARRACK ROAD

3/51 Roscarrack Farm Cottage (Simpson) - GV II

Small house, later remodelled as cottage ornee (pair of cottages). Probably C18, remodelled in the C19 and early C20. Painted rubble and cob walls. Asbestos slate roof (formerly thatched) with original rubble stack over left-hand gable end and late C19 or early C20 external granite stack with brick chimney at the right-hand gable end. Plan: Small 2 room plan house, plus single later lean-to at rear. Probably original kitchen living room on the left and parlour on the right. Later remodelled as 2 cottages with each room becoming the kitchen/living room . Now one house. Gothic style details Exterior: 2 storeys. Slightly asymmetrical 2 window front with pair of doorways in the middle within a Gothic style porch with scalloped barge boards to its gable ends. Old ledged door in left-hand doorway, C20 glazed door in other doorway. At left and right are original window openings spanned by hardwood lintels. Original or circa early C19 horizontal-sliding sashes. 6 and 9-pane lights to left-hand window; pair of 6-pane lights to other window. First floor windows are later triangular headed Gothic style dormered casements with small panes and traceried heads in steeply- pitched gables above the eaves. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW7900631385