Leaze

ST BREWARD SX 17 NW 6/176 Leaze 20.3.85

GV II*

Cottage, originally a small farmhouse. Circa mid C17 with circa C18 rear outshot and porch. Coursed granite rubble with large moorstone quoins and grounders. Rag slate roof with hipped end on left (north west) and gable end on right (south east). Squat stone rubble internal end stack on right with dripcourse. Plan: 2 cell plan; entrance on left leading into a narrow room which forms an entrance lobby and larger hall on right heated by the end stack. Circa C18 rear outshot providing service room and porch to front of original entrance on left. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1-window front. Round headed granite arch to entrance on left of front with later plank door and circa C18 or C19 granite rubble porch with rag slate roof. Small hall window to right of centre with granite lintel and cill. One smaller first floor window below eaves at centre with granite cill. These are probably the original openings and have later 2-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. Similar windows on left hand (north west) end, on ground and first floors. No windows on right hand gable end wall to south east. Catslide slate roof over continuous rear outshot. Interior: Interior plan intact ceiling beams appear to have been replaced. Timber lintel to fireplace. Interior not accessible at time of survey (1986). Leaze is a rake unaltered survival of a small moorland 2-cell house of the C17. The porch and rear outshot are interesting developments improving the accommodation probably in C18. Very few unaltered C17 farmhouses on this tiny scale remain and it is probably the best example in Cornwall. V M and F J Chesher The Cornishman's House pp 54 and 55, photograph p77 and plan p89.

Listing NGR: SX1332176858