Roscarrack Farmhouse

Roscarrack Farmhouse comprises two adjoining farmhouses and a shippon, dating to the 17th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of painted rubble and cob walls, with hardwood lintels over the openings. The roof is covered in asbestos slate, previously thatched, and features rubble and brick stacks on the gable ends. The building follows an irregular, roughly 'L' shaped plan. The original 17th-century two-room-plan house has a shippon to its left, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, and an 18th-century two-room-plan house with a central entrance passage. The 18th-century house has a rear stair outshut, flanked by a later outshut on the left and a later lean-to wash-house on the right. A shippon projects at right angles to the rear of the 18th-century house, and the latter house has a later outshut to its rear. The 17th-century house presents a nearly symmetrical west-south-west front with ground floor openings spanned by original heavy, ovolo-moulded hardwood lintels with run-out stops. It has a wide 18-pane 3-light casement window on the left, and other circa early 20th-century casements in original openings. A 20th-century door is present. The 18th-century house also has a nearly symmetrical front, with a centrally positioned doorway. Ground floor openings are spanned by bowtell-moulded hardwood lintels, and it has an early 20th-century door. One wide window opening on the right retains its original 18-pane 3-light casement, with thick glazing bars and pintails for former shutters; the other windows are 20th-century replacements. Inside the 17th-century section, a partial inspection revealed original chamfered and stopped hardwood ceiling beams, a circa late 18th-century dog-leg stair, and large fireplaces that are partly blocked. The 18th-century section has slightly chamfered softwood beams. The roof structures were not inspected.