Degembris Major Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

Degembris Major Farmhouse and its attached outbuildings date from the 16th to early 17th century and the late 18th century. The farmhouse is built from elvan and killas, limewashed, with a slate-hung front and a slate roof. The layout includes an off-centre front entrance, with a sitting room to the left featuring a gable stack, and a smaller heated room adjacent to the kitchen at the far left. There is an integral lean-to (linhay) at the rear that originally contained a dairy and stair, which was raised to one and a half storeys when the main roof was elevated. Attached to the left gable is a two-storey farm building from the 16th to 17th century, along with a single-storey stable wing added in front of the junction. The farmhouse has two storeys with a front that is slate-hung. It features a half-glazed door with a pent porch roof and paned casement windows, with four-paned sashes on either side of the entrance. Gable brick stacks are present. The interior has been modernised; the right gable fireplace has a timber lintel that is no longer visible, while the left gable fireplace originally had a large fireplace with a cloam oven, which has since been removed. The linhay has chamfered ceiling joists without stops.

The attached farm building is a continuing range made of killas with granite and elvan dressings. It has two storeys and four window bays, featuring two-light stone mullioned chamfered windows with some original plank shutters on each floor—two on the ground floor and three on the upper floor, which also has a door with a chamfered sill. The roof, dating from the 19th century, is of Cornish type. The upper floor, now used as a store, retains some shafting. In front, there is a three-bay stable building from the mid-19th century, constructed of killas with a slate roof. This stable has loose boxes on the ground floor with stable doors and segmental buff brick arches, as well as pitching doors to the loft.

Degembris is mentioned by Carew as a tithing of the hundred of Pydar in 1650.