Greystone Farmhouse

LEZANT - SX 37 NE 6/21 Greystone Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. C15, remodelled late C16 or early C17 and extended late C17 with later additions and alterations. Rendered roughly coursed slate-stone; hipped slate roofs to main range and C17 addition, half-hipped roof to projecting rear range. Original L-plan consisting of former open-hall range with slightly later shorter range at right-angles to rear on right (possibly former solar) with lower hip-roofed range added to right of hall range in C17, forming present T-plan. 2 storeys. 3 late C20 casements directly below eaves to hall range with horned 16-paned glazing bar sash to left and segmental-headed C20 metal casement to right of central 6-panel door with narrow rectangular latticed overlight (stained glass) under C20 narrow gabled porch. Integral slate-stone end stack with toothed red brick capping to right at junction with C17 addition, which has C20 window on each floor. Rear: Projecting range has integral lateral stack with tall brick shaft to left and lean- to to right side. Garage door inserted to C17 addition. Wide infilled 4-centred chamfered arch-way (possibly not in situ) to far right of hall range has C20 window inserted and buttress to left. Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams to left and right ground-floor rooms with mortices for former joists: ceilings are now raised with C20 joists. Infilled inglenook fireplace to right room. Rear projecting range has large open fireplace with massive granite lintel and jambs. Segmental-headed stone doorway with moulded jambs leads to stone spiral staircase to left. Segmental- headed wooden doorway at top of stairs. Roof of hall range visible in roof space with bottom of trusses projecting through onto first floor. Moulded arch-braced cambered collar truss roof in 5 bays including to hips, left retaining original arrangement of cambered collar between principal rafters, right altered by insertion of stack. 2 sets of butt purlins, upper chamfered, lower moulded, with long curving windbraces between. Original rafters and ridge piece. The whole roof is uniformly but not extensively smoke blackened, suggesting that it is of late medieval construction, that the whole of the main range was open to the roof and that it was first floored over at a relatively early date. The survival of the original common rafters is unusual. The rear projecting range (possibly a solar) is later as purlin and rafters are cut away at this point: the roof structure of this range is early C20. 3-bay roof of standard collar truss type to C17 addition.

Listing NGR: SX3626179958