Clowance Farmhouse and Stile

Clowance Farmhouse and Stile is a small, early 19th-century farmhouse with an integral barn, accompanied by a stile and gate pier. The farmhouse is constructed of local killas rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills, and lintels. It has a three-quarter hipped, grouted scantle slate roof, with brick chimneys on the left-hand side wall and over the central cross wall. The plan combines a house and barn of roughly equal size, rectangular overall, with a cross wall separating the two. The house is divided internally to form a shallow pantry on the left and a stair hall at the rear right, with the main front displaying a kitchen/living room to the left and a small parlour to the right. Originally, the left-hand room's window was a doorway. It's suggested that the ground floor was initially stabling, with groom’s accommodation above and fodder storage to the right, later converted into domestic rooms in the 19th century. A later lean-to cartshed incorporates a dovecote behind the barn, and a granite staircase runs in the angle between the barn and house, leading to a doorway in the barn’s first-floor loading doorway. A granite grid stile with a dressed granite wall and integral square gate pier adjoins the barn, creating the entrance to the farmyard. The west front is regularly arranged with four bays. Original ground-floor and first-floor openings are present in each bay. The original ground floor doorway on the left has been replaced by a window and the window to its right was converted into a doorway before being restored as a window. Some sills have been deepened. Initially, the front displayed doorways on both the left and right, although the symmetry was broken by a loading (or winnowing) doorway in the left-hand bay of the right-hand section. Four-pane horned sash windows are found on the house front to the left, and a surviving original 12-pane 2-light casement (with some glazing bars missing) is in the third bay from the left on the ground floor. Original ledged doors are present. The rear features two original window openings directly opposite those on the front, left. The interior includes original floors and a king post roof structure. This is an unusual early 19th-century building type that has remained virtually unaltered since that period.