Godcott Farmhouse And Cart Shed Adjoining On West

This is a farmhouse with an attached cart shed, located in North Petherwin. The main structure dates to around the late 16th or early 17th century, although it may have earlier origins, with extensions added in the early 19th century. The farmhouse is built of rendered and painted stone rubble, with a slate roof featuring a gable end on the left and a hipped end on the right. It has two end brick stacks on the left side, a projecting lateral stack to the rear right, and an axial brick stack on the front slope to the right.

The original layout likely comprised three rooms and either a cross or through passage, now forming the rear (north) part of the house. The ground slopes downwards to the east, and the original entrance location is uncertain. The room on the upper left (west) had an end stack fireplace, the central hall a projecting lateral stack at the rear, and the lower room on the right (east) appears to have been unheated. In the early 19th century, a second range parallel to the original was constructed across the south front, creating a double-depth plan. This early 19th-century front range features a wide entrance hall flanked by two main rooms, while the earlier 17th-century north range was adapted for service rooms. A cart shed was added to the west end of the house in the later 19th century, and a dairy was added to the rear in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The south-facing front has a symmetrical facade with three windows plus one to the right, a moulded plinth, and accommodates the slope of the ground. It contains early 19th-century hornless sash windows, and a centrally positioned entrance with a semi-circular traceried fanlight above a pair of 20th-century panelled doors. Sixteen-pane sashes are present on the ground floor, with similar sashes on the first floor; a cellar entrance is located in the lower right-hand end. The rear elevation displays two 19th-century windows with intersecting glazing bars on the first floor.

The west end has an open-fronted cart shed, facing the yard to the north, featuring roughly cut granite piers and a rag slate roof with gable ends.

Inside, the west room in the 17th-century north range retains deeply chamfered floor joists with straight-cut stops, and chamfered and stopped secondary beams. A 17th-century ovolo-moulded door frame and studded door may have been re-set in a 19th-century partition. There’s a chamfered granite surround to a fireplace. The ceilings in the hall and lower room on the east are plastered, and internal partitions have been altered. The roof structure is largely from the mid-19th century, with a king-post truss roof spanning both the 17th and 19th-century ranges.