Windyridge

TINTAGEL SX 08 NE 4/172 Nos. 1 and 2 Windyridge GV II Farmhouse now divided into 2 private houses. Circa late C16 or early C17. Painted and rendered slate stone rubble. Regular slate roof with gable ends and raised eaves. Projecting stone rubble stack on left hand gable end with cloam oven projection, projecting rear lateral stack with cloam oven projection and slate pot. Truncated stone rubble stack on right hand gable end. Plan altered, possibly originally 2 room and cross passage plan with smaller left hand room heated by gable end stack and larger right hand room heated by a rear lateral stack. It is possible that there was a small unheated inner room although the partition, if there were a division, has now been removed. The stack on the right hand gable end was possibly to heat the first floor chamber. Circa C19 lean-to outshot on right hand gable end. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front. Ground floor with C19 2-light casement on left, part glazed C20 door, 3-light casement and C20 door to right with C20 window adjoining. First floor has 3 C20 2-light casements. Single storey lean-to outshot on right hand gable end. Interior : partly remodelled and ceiling beams largely renewed. Fireplace in left hand room with renewed timber lintel and C20 grate to fireplace in right hand room. First floor not inspected. Photograph of house in late C19 or early C20 illustrates earlier roof line; 3 first floor half dormer windows with raking roofs and line of pigeon holes below eaves. Rendell, J North Cornwall in the Old Days 1983 page 65.

Listing NGR: SX0694487955