Farm Buildings To North East Of St Elvan Farmhouse

HELSTON

SW6427 TORLEVEN ROAD 631-1/4/229 (East side) 22/05/72 Farm buildings to north-east of St Elvan Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: TORLEVEN ROAD St Elvan Farmhouse and attached farm buildings)

II

Large range of farm buildings. Feeding house (barn) 1845, cattle house and piggery 1865, potato house 1882. Killas rubble with granite dressings; grouted scantle slate roofs except for corrugated asbestos to barn. Large evolved plan ranged around 3 sides of a farmyard. Barn and extension (probable potato house) 2 storeys, otherwise single storey. Farmyard elevations from left: trap house with symmetrical 2-window front with 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes and central doorway; cart-shed and stable with pair of wide doorways on the left and boarded window and doorway on the right; 2-window barn with shuttered windows, central loading doorway over waggon doorway flanked by slit ventilators (one formerly wider) and 2 doorways; extension to barn has 1st-floor loading doorway and granite steps (with kennel) up to doorway of right-hand return with slatehanging to 1st floor over wide doorway; then a low shippon with 4 doorways, 2 of which are blocked which returns to further shippon with 3 doorways, the widest doorway partly blocked, and 2 slit ventilators and finally a piggery with 3 low doorways with 2 partly blocked. Ledged doors to most openings. Horse-engine house at rear of barn not inspected. INTERIOR: original roof structure where inspected.

Listing NGR: SW6402427428