Gweal Booth (North Of Gweal Drogoe)

SW 52 NE GERMOE CHURCHTOWN, Germoe 6/229 Gweal Booth (north of Gweal Drogoe)

II

Small house, used as carpenter's shop, and adjoining outbuilding possibly shippon with store over. C18, extended circa mid C19. Granite rubble walls, wooden lintels. Steep corrugated iron roof (formerly thatched) to house, slurried scantle slate roof to outbuilding with taller eaves; gable ends. Brick chimney over the party wall. Plan: 2 rooms with originally a cross passage between: parlour, left, with small fireplace and hall/kitchen, right, with large fireplace. Extended with 1 room plan 2 storey building left, and 1 room plan single storey building in the C19. 2 storeys. Slightly irregular 2 window south front, the smaller first floor windows closer together with possibly blocked window opening between. C20 door and windows in original openings. Small buttress left of house. Outbuilding, left, has central doorway with window left and small window right, loading doorway over, right of middle. Interior : virtually complete except that partitions and stairs are removed. Original fireplaces with large oak lintel over the kitchen fireplace, C18 bowtell moulded ceiling beams and original oak roof structure with lapped and pegged collars, halved and pegged apices and the original battens for holding the thatch.

Listing NGR: SW5838229286