Farm Buildings To South West Of Hurdon Farmhouse

LAUNCESTON

SX38SW HURDON ROAD 660-1/2/75 Farm Buildings to SW of Hurdon Farmhouse

GV II

Farm buildings including stables with hayloft, cider house, calf houses, fodder house, shelter shed (later used as shearing shed), loose box and implement shed. Mid C19. Slatestone rubble walls (except for cob to part of rear wall of fodder house) timber lintels or shallow brick arches; rag slate roofs. Overall F-shaped plan with 2-storey stables and loft at the top of the F with lean-to calf houses behind, linking fodder house, which appears to be the oldest part, shelter shed and horse box at right-angles to this and open-fronted implement shed forming the leg of the F. Stables are part of 3-window range with stable door flanked by partly shuttered and partly glazed windows and on the right a doorway to the cider house with a 2-light shuttered window on its right. Left-hand return of stable has barely detached flight of stone steps up to central loading doorway. Calf house front has 2 doorways towards the centre and slit ventilators at left and right. Fodder house has doorway on its right and partly blocked (with masonry including C17 chamfered granite) widely splayed window on its left. Open-fronted shelter shed facing west, with 2 granite monoliths, small rear window and loose box on its left with doorway to east wall with slit ventilator to splayed corner. Implement shed has mostly open front carried on 1 granite monolith and 2 wooden posts. INTERIOR where inspected retains original floor and roof structures and there is a complete cider press in the cider house. One of good group of farmbuildings at Hurdon Farm.

Listing NGR: SX3337482726