Lanyon Farmhouse, Front Garden Walls, Cartshed And Mounting Block

MADRON SW 43 SW 6/93 Lanyon Farmhouse front garden - walls, cartshed and mounting block II Farmhouse, front garden walls, gate piers, cartshed and mounting block. Circa 1800. Granite ashlar on all sides of the farmhouse. Slurried scantle slate roof with granite ashlar stacks over the gable ends. Cast-iron ogee gutters. Plan: unaltered double-depth plan with 2 rooms at the front flanking a cross passage leading to a central stair hall between back kitchen left and dairy right. Behind the right hand side of the house is a single storey service wing at right angles, said to have been once a chapel. There is a C17 window head or sill reused over the doorway. Exterior: 2 storeys plus attic (lit by windows in the gables). Symmetrical 3 window south front with central doorway. Plinth, flat keyed arches over the openings and mid-floor band. Wide window openings to left and right, originally with tripartite sashes. C20 door and windows at the front, older horned sashes at the rear. Interior: simple but little altered interior; moulded ceiling cornice in the right hand room; dog-leg stair with square chamfered newels and stick balusters and 6-panel doors. Rectangular garden at the front with granite coped dressed granite and rubble walls to each side. Lower wall parallel to the front with central gateway with granite monolithic piers and C19 cast-iron gate. Adjoining the left hand wall is a cartshed or trap house and at a little distance to the right of the garden is a dressed granite mounting block.

Listing NGR: SW4258334086