Carnhell Farmhouse Adjoining Engine House, Barn, Front Garden Walls And Gate Piers

A farmhouse with associated buildings dating from the 17th century, built on a possible 14th-century site, and remodelled during the 18th and early 19th centuries. This was formerly the home of the Carnhell family, including Sir Edward Carnhell. The farmhouse is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings, and has grouted scantle slate roofs which are hipped or half-hipped, with brick chimneys at the hipped ends. Cast-iron ogee gutters are also present.

The house has a roughly L-shaped plan, including two large rooms in the main range, with a stair hall between them, and a single-room parlour wing with a further entrance lobby and stair hall connecting the two ranges. The right-hand room of the main range is the kitchen, and was likely always the hall/kitchen. A parallel service range is situated behind the main house. To the front of the parlour wing is a horse-engine house, which once operated a mill, and adjoining this to the right is a barn with a granary above a shippon.

The south front has a slightly irregular three-window arrangement to the main range, with the parlour wing positioned at a right angle on the right. The main doorway has a 20th-century door, and the doorway to the parlour wing is blocked. Windows are 6-pane horned sashes, believed to be from the early 20th century, set within 18th- or 19th-century openings. A blocked window at the rear of the stair hall is said to retain the chamfered outer frame of a mullioned window. The engine house has a large doorway at the front and a small window at the rear. The barn’s front is symmetrical, featuring a central doorway with a loading/winnowing doorway above ventilator slits for the shippon; the first-floor window is blocked. Steps from the 20th century are at the rear.

Internally, there's a circa 1800 dog-leg staircase and some panelling in the entrance lobby, of a similar date or possibly from the 18th century. The remainder of the interior carpentry and joinery is from the early 19th century. A very large, partially blocked fireplace is in the kitchen. The front of the house has granite coped rubble walls with quadrant-on-plan returns to the gateway, featuring granite monolithic piers.