Carvoda

Carvoda is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates back to the early 17th century and was extended in the late 17th to early 18th century, with further additions and alterations made later. The building features roughcast slate-stone and cob construction, topped with a graded slate roof. The original central through-passage house was extended to the left during the late 17th to early 18th century.

The structure stands two storeys high. The original section has three late 20th-century plastic casements in earlier openings on the first floor, with one casement on either side of a central half-glazed door, which is sheltered by a 19th-century flat-roofed open porch supported by carved wooden posts. The left extension includes three plastic casements directly below the eaves, an additional casement on the ground floor to the left, and plastic French windows in the centre and to the right. There is an external end stack with a red brick top to the right of the 17th-century part, and a red brick ridge stack, which was formerly an end stack, at the junction with the addition. A slightly later lean-to is located at the rear on the right side of the main part.

Inside, the right ground floor of the 17th-century section features chamfered joists with roughly carved stops, and the floorboards of the room above are visible. There is an inglenook fireplace with granite jambs, a chamfered wood lintel, and two cloam ovens. A small fixed-light window in the back wall next to the staircase looks into the lean-to. The left room has a partly infilled open fireplace with a cloam oven and a wood lintel that was brought from elsewhere in the late 20th century. The roof has a collar truss design in eight bays. The addition has been significantly altered in the late 20th century but retains a visible collar truss roof on the first floor, which is approximately six feet high.