Lower Penare

ST GORAN SX 04 SW 3/72 Lower Penare - II

Farmhouse, now house. Circa C17, with addition of later C17; alterations of late C19 and C20. Slatestone rubble, the main front rendered. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stack to left with brick shaft and gable end stack to right with rubble shaft. At the left end of the addition is a gable end stack with rubble shaft and shaped top. Plan: 2-room and cross passage plan; each room heated from a gable end stack. Circa late C17, an addition of one-room plan was made at the left end, heated from a gable end stack to left. To rear left there is an unheated outshut, probably of C19, and at the right end there are two outshuts, the front one of single storey and the rear one of single storey with loft, projecting to rear right as a rear wing and heated from a gable end stack. Exterior: 2 storeys, an asymmetrical 2-window front. Central C20 gabled porch with C20 inner door. Ground and first floor to left and right have late C19 4-pane sash. To left is the lower 2-storey addition, with C20 2-light 6-pane casement at ground and first floors to left and C20 plank door to right. To right, there is a single storey lean-to built around the external stack, a C20 single light window with timber lintel at the front. The right end is rendered and roughcast, blind. The left end has large stepped external stack. The rear is rendered. The rear wing to left has C19 2-light 3-pane casement at ground and first floors on the inner side. There is a C20 addition at the rear of the passage and at first floor a C20 window lighting the stair. To right there is a single storey outshut with two 2-light C20 casements and C20 door at the left end. Interior: The entrance passage has roughly hewn and chamfered ceiling beam to right; there is a straight stair inserted in the passage with a panelled screen partition at first floor, probably of C18. The rest of the house was not accessible.

Listing NGR: SW9998440403