Halgabron House Including Cartwheel Cottage On Right

Halgabron House, including Cartwheel Cottage on right

A farmhouse now divided into a house and cottage, dating from approximately the 16th century and substantially remodelled in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of slate-stone rubble with a regular 19th-century slate roof featuring 19th-century crested ridge tiles. The roof structure continues in rag slates over the inner room on the right.

The building comprises several ranges. The main range has a gable end on the right. A parallel range at the front on the left has a gable end on the right and a 19th-century slate roof with crested ridge tiles. The cross wing to the left has a gable end facing front and a hipped end to the rear. A large stone rubble stack rises on the higher right-hand gable end with a cloam oven projection. The building also features a brick axial hall stack backing onto the passage to the left of centre, a brick axial stack to the cross wing on the left (probably originally a front lateral stack heating the service room prior to 19th-century remodelling), and a rendered brick lateral stack to the cross wing.

The original arrangement appears to have been a three-room plan with through passage, featuring stone rubble cross walls continuing to the apex on the higher side of the passage and on the higher side of the hall between hall and inner room. The quite large inner room on the right is heated by a gable-end stack and contains a stone newel stair in a stair turret on the front elevation, which originally gave access solely to the chamber above the inner room. The hall is heated by an axial stack backing onto the through passage, with a stair in a shallow gabled projection to the rear towards the higher end on the right. The lower end was considerably remodelled and was probably originally heated by a front lateral stack, which became enclosed by later additions.

During the mid-19th-century remodelling, the inner room on the right remained comparatively unaltered but gained an outshot across to the rear. A parallel extension of one-room depth was added across the front of the hall to accommodate a stair hall, with a 19th-century porch added in front of the entrance. At the lower end, the service room was remodelled and extended to form a cross wing on the front of the lower room, containing a further reception room heated by a side lateral stack and a service room to the rear.

The roof timbers above the inner room were probably replaced in the 18th century, and those above the lower end in the 19th century. The roof structure above the hall was not accessible at the time of survey. In approximately the 20th century, the inner room was divided from the hall to form the separate cottage known as Cartwheel Cottage.

The building is two storeys with an asymmetrical front elevation of seven openings to one window, featuring mid-19th-century fenestration. The gabled end to the cross wing on the left and the inner room are set back from the 19th-century extensions on the right. A canted bay window in the cross wing on the left contains sashes. A 19th-century canted timber porch with flat slate roof, segmental arched openings and fielded panelling sits at the front entrance. A 19th-century stair window with margin glazing bars, a horned twelve-pane sash, and a 20th-century glazed door are located to the right. The first floor features three sashes in the canted bay window and three hornless twelve-pane sashes. Set back to the right, the inner room, now Cartwheel Cottage, has a stair projection on the left, a 20th-century glazed door, and a 20th-century fire window with a 20th-century window on the first floor.

The rear elevation has an asymmetrical front of four windows, featuring 19th-century sashes and casements. A stair projection projects in front of the hall to the left of centre, adjoining a two-storey bay projection of the inner room, with a hipped end to the cross wing on the right. A 20th-century extension occupies the angle between the cross wing and the main range, to the rear of the through passage.

The interior was substantially remodelled in the 19th century. Cartwheel Cottage, originally the inner room, has a timber and slate newel stair in the projection with a 20th-century fireplace and 19th/20th-century ceiling beams. Although the roof structure was not fully accessible at the time of survey, the collars are lapped and pegged onto the face of the principals, indicating that the roof structure was probably replaced in the 18th century. The chamber above the lower end has a 19th-century plaster moulded cornice. The hall and roof structure above the hall were not accessible at the time of survey.