Clennick Farmhouse

ST GERMANS SX 36 SW 2/46 Clennick Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Mid-late C17, with C18 outshut to rear, C19 and C20 alterations. Rubble, rendered. Slate roof, partly scantle slate and slurried, with gable ends and ridge tiles, one handmade crested tile surviving. Gable end stacks with brick shafts and rear lateral hall stack. Plan: 3-room and through passage plan, with lower end room to left heated by gable end stack, hall to right heated by rear lateral stack and inner room to end right heated by gable end stack. Stair tower possibly of the original build, to the rear of the hall, and a C19 boxed stair in the lower end room, along the wall to the passage. Outshut of C19 to rear of lower end room and hall. Exterior: 2-storeys, passage has 4-panelled door. All windows C20 casements. 2- light casement above door, one at ground and first floor to right, 2 at ground floor lighting hall and one to end room to right, 2 at first floor to right. Right gable end has stepped extenal stack. Left end has 2-light casement to the dairy in the outshut. Rear has pitched roof over stair tower, with one C20 window to left side and small C20 privy attached to rear. Large rendered rear lateral external stack. C20 2-storey addition of one-room plan to rear of lateral stack. The rear outshut has a door. Interior: The lower end room to left has roughly hewn chamfered cross beans; fireplace with oven to right and pot jack. In the hall, there is a semi-circular granite step leading up to the stair tower, which has a stair dividing to right and left, giving access to each chamber over the hall and the chamber over the right end. At first floor, the chamber over the lower end also has chartered cross beams. Roof structure not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX3158860075