Churchtown Farmhouse

LANIVET LANIVET SX 06 SW 8/133 Churchtown Farmhouse 15.1.87 GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17 ; remodelled with additions in mid - late C18 ; C20 alterations. Painted granite rubble. Hipped slate roof, with ridge and hip tiles. Stack with rendered shaft at the right side ; stack truncated to left side. Plan: 2-room plan, with a larger room to left and smaller room to right, each heated from a stack at the end ; entrance off-centre to right. Probably in C18, an outshut of single storey and loft was added to the rear of the room to left. A 2-storey wing of one-room plan was also added to the rear of the room to right, with a single storey outshut at the right end. In C20, the two rooms in the front had their partition walls removed. Exterior: 2 storeys, nearly symmetrical 3-window front. All windows are C20 casements, except first floor central 12-pane light. Central C18 3-panelled door with gabled hood on cast iron piers, with scalloped valance. Attached to right a single storey outshut with C20 window, to front. At the right side, the rear wing has C20 porch set in the angle to the outshut ; the wing has C20 window at ground and first floor, and blind gable end. The left end has external stack, truncated at eaves level ; in the outshut to left a 4-pane light at ground floor and 9-pane light at first floor. At the rear, the outshut has a 4-pane light. Interior: Not fully inspected. At ground floor, the fireplace at the right end has granite jambs and heavy chamfered timber lintel, with cloam oven to rear left. The beams seem to be C20 replacements.

Listing NGR: SX0390564236