Meledor Farmhouse

Meledor Farmhouse is a two-storey granite and cob farmhouse dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with a rear addition probably of the 18th century and subsequent alterations in the mid to late 19th century and 20th century.

The original house followed a three-room and through-passage plan. The lower end room to the right has been demolished, probably in the 19th century. What survives comprises the inner room, hall, and passage, though these spaces have been significantly altered. The passage doorway is blocked at both front and rear. The hall has been partitioned into small rooms, with a 19th-century doorway inserted in the hall bay to serve as the front entrance. A second small room occupies the right end of the hall and the former passage. The inner room lies at the left end. A single-storey outshut with loft runs along the entire rear, probably dating from the late 17th century with 19th-century alterations; this contains two rooms, one unheated to the right and one heated to the left from an axially positioned stack.

The front elevation is asymmetrical with three windows. The hall bay and external lateral stack occupy the left side, both sitting on a chamfered plinth. The blocked passage doorway on the right has a two-centred arch with wave mouldings and a grotesque mask above the arch apex, with imposts and moulded jambs and a granite step. To the left, a 19th-century twelve-pane sash window appears at both ground and first floor, the ground floor having granite voussoirs. The external lateral stack on the left houses the hall bay, which features a 19th-century half-glazed door at ground floor beneath a cambered stone arch, with a twelve-pane sash above. The inner room to the left displays a four-light ground-floor window with hollow-chamfered granite and roll-moulded jambs and lintel, each light containing ten panes with three-centred arches and recessed spandrels. Above this, a 19th-century twelve-pane sash with granite lintel bearing vestigial ogee carving. The left gable end is rendered and blind. The right gable end has 20th-century plate-glass windows at ground and first floors set in cambered brick arches. The outshut to the right contains a six-pane window at ground floor and a 20th-century window at first floor. At the rear, the outshut roof forms a catslide meeting the main roof, with a gabled dormer to the left and two stacks; ground floor has three 20th-century windows and a 20th-century porch to the right.

The roof, clad in asbestos slate with ridge tiles and gable ends, has been completely replaced with no original trusses surviving. The left gable end stack is constructed of granite with a shaft, cornice, and shaped top. The front lateral stack to the right is of squared granite on a chamfered plinth, with a moulded string course, cornice, and a stone bellcote crowned with a crocketed pinnacle.

Internally, the roof replacement means there is no surviving evidence of the original roof structure. The house may originally have had an open hall before the insertion of the hall bay and front lateral stack, though no internal evidence remains. The original hall has been partitioned, with a 19th-century straight stair inserted to the rear and the front lateral fireplace blocked. Nineteenth-century ceiling beams are present. A 20th-century fireplace has been inserted at the rear right. The inner room has a blocked gable end fireplace. There are no solid masonry walls at ground floor level. Evidence remains for the position of a passage doorway to the rear.