Newhouse Farmhouse

LAUNCESTON

SX38NW ST STEPHEN 660-1/1/207 Newhouse Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, formerly the farm for St Thomas Priory. c1800 on much older site. Slatestone rubble exept where rendered to ground floor of front and slate-hung to 1st floor of front and left-hand end; simulating slate roof except for hipped rag slate roof on right; brick end stacks and large rubble external rear lateral stack. Double-depth plan including rear outshut with pantry and kitchen plus later well-house and dairy on right. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. C20 two-light casements to 1st floor; partly possibly original or early C19 three-light casements to ground floor including 2 original casements with thin glazing bars to left-hand window; 6-panel door with top panels later glazed and flush-beaded bottom panels. Rear has old casements under oak lintels including, of particular interest, a C18 three-light wooden mullioned window to ground-floor right with leaded glazing. Large chimney has circular oven projection. INTERIOR: original or early C19 features including: 2 large fireplaces with bread ovens, another slightly smaller fireplace to parlour, on left dog-leg stair with stick balusters and chamfered newel, 2-panel doors, 2 simple wooden chimney-pieces with late C19 iron grates, pegged roof structure with tie beams and collars and pulley wheel for former bell in roof space. History: The parish boundary used to pass through the farmhouse and when beating-the-bounds it is said that people were expected to pass through the central light of the mullioned window mentioned in this description. The former bell was used to assemble workers on the farm.

Listing NGR: SX3139785561