Lower Bosvarren Farmhouse

A farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, with extensions added around the early and mid 19th century. The house is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings. It has slurried scantle slate roofs with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. The front range originally comprised two rooms and a through passage, with gable end stacks serving both rooms, although the partition on the left side of the passage was later removed, making the rooms more equal in size. In the early 19th century, a shallow, unheated parallel range was added to the rear, which was subsequently incorporated into a larger rear wing constructed in the mid-19th century, extending over an outbuilding and connecting to the integral farm buildings. The front elevation is asymmetrical, with a two-window range. Most windows are 2-light, horizontally sliding sashes with glazing bars, except for a later 19th-century 4-pane sash on the first floor right. First-floor windows retain granite lintels and chamfered granite cills, the right-hand window having stoolings for mullions. The ground floor windows also have chamfered granite frames; the right-hand window retains stoolings for two mullions, while the left-hand window has a later, unchamfered lintel. A doorway to the left of centre is framed by a chamfered granite 3-centred arch with long pyramid stops, and has a late 19th-century glazed and panelled door. The right-hand elevation, the outer side of the rear wing, features a mid-19th-century 12-pane sash on the first floor and a late 19th-century 2-light casement below. The rear elevation incorporates late 19th-century 2-light casements, and the inner face of the rear wing has a late 19th-century 12-pane sash above a wide doorway with a long granite lintel. Inside the main range, the original fireplaces in both front rooms have been blocked by 20th-century fireplaces, and the upper floors are supported by exposed softwood joists. Bosvarren was part of the small manor of Treworval.