Trenow And Front Garden Walls

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SW 63 SW 4/198

CROWAN Trenow and front garden walls

(Formerly listed as Binner Vean and front garden walls)

GV II Farmhouse and front garden walls. Circa early C19. Killas rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, bonding stones, sills and lintels. Grouted scantle slate roof with brick chimneys over the gable ends. Double depth plan: 2 nearly equal front rooms with cross passage between leading to central stair between 2 shallow service rooms. The left hand front room is the original kitchen/living room (now 1 room with the room behind) and the right hand front room is the parlour. A small C19 outbuilding, possibly a stable, adjoins the left hand gable end towards the rear and a C20 kitchen adjoins at the opposite end in a similar position. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south-south-east front with roughly central doorway. 4-panel door, later glazed to top panels and circa late C19 sash windows with hornless lower inner sashes and horned upper sashes. Ashlar plinth and ashlar lintel course. Interior is structurally fairly complete with the original first floor and probably original roof structure and most original partitions. Large granite fireplace in the left hand front room. The front garden is rectangular and surrounded by a slurried rubble-coped rubble wall. The gateway is aligned with the front doorway and is flanked by round-headed granite monolithic jambs. An unspoiled C19 farmhouse near Binnerton Manor Farmhouse qv which an interesting C17 and C18 house.

Listing NGR: SW6095933210