Lower Kergilliack Farmhouse And Wall Adjoining At Rear

SW 73 SE BUDOCK 3/8 Lower Kergilliack Farmhouse and - wall adjoining at rear GV II

Farmhouse, including garden wall adjoining at the rear right-hand side. Possibly C18, remodelled and extended circa early-mid C19. Painted rubble, granite sills to part of front, slate sills to slightly later wing; brick arches over the openings. Dry Delabole slate and scantle slate roofs. 2 parallel roofs with brick gable end stacks extended with hipped linking roof with very deep eaves over later wing, on the right. Cast-iron ogee-section gutters. Plan: Double depth plan under 2 parallel roofs plus stair projection at rear and circa mid-C19 shallower depth one-room plan addition, on the right. Original part has 2 rooms at the front flanking a cross passage leading to a stair hall between 2 similar sized rooms (possibly the original house) at the rear. Left-hand rooms are wider. Wall adjoining at rear has a semi-circular-on-plan projection and is thought to have been built when French prisoners -of-war were accommodated at Kergilliack during the Napoleonic Wars. Exterior: 2 storeys. Overall 4 windows south front. Older 3-window front on the left has doorway right of middle. C19 6-panel door; circa early-C19 hornless sashes with glazing bars to ground floor, later 6-pane horned sashes to first floor. Cambered arches over the openings. Wing set back on the right has doorway with old pair of glazed doors and overlight and blind window opening above. Right-hand wall of wing is a 2 window garden front with original 12-pane hornless sashes and old shutters to the ground floor openings. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW7840633114