Roskear

Roskear is a farmhouse dating from around the mid-17th century, with some early 18th-century additions. It is constructed of stone rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with hipped ends and brick stacks at either end. The layout consists of a two-room and cross passage plan, heated by end stacks, with a stair projection at the rear of the right-hand room. There is likely a dairy in a single-storey early 18th-century outshot at the back of the passage and left-hand room. Originally, the house may have had a three-room and cross passage plan, but in the 19th century, the left-hand range was reduced to a single storey and later demolished in the 20th century. In the early 1980s, the gable end of the roof on the left was modified to create a hipped end, resulting in a symmetrical front elevation.

The exterior is two-storey with an attic, featuring a symmetrical three-window front with dressed stone flat arches over the window openings and a steeply pitched roof. The central entrance has a six-panel door flanked by two early 19th-century hornless sash windows with 16 panes each. Above, there are three similar sash windows. At the rear, the single-storey outshot on the left has been raised to two storeys in the 20th century, and the stair projection, which originally extended to the attic, has been reduced to two storeys.

Inside, there is a lath and plaster partition on the left side of the passage, while the right partition has been removed. The larger right-hand room features roughly cut ceiling beams from the early 18th century, and the chimney-pieces have been replaced. There is a dog-leg stair from the 18th century with a closed string, moulded rail, square newels, and stick balusters. The first floor contains two 18th-century two-panel doors with raised and fielded panels. The roof structure dates from the mid to late 17th century, with principals that are morticed at the apices and collars that are halved, lap-jointed, and pegged, although the diagonal ridge has been replaced.