Carevick Farmhouse

CAREVICK FARMHOUSE

Farmhouse, now house. The original building dates from the mid to late 17th century, with a major extension added around the mid-19th century, followed by further alterations and additions in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The original 17th-century range is built in painted stone rubble and cob, partly rendered and partly in brick, with a thatched roof featuring half-hipped ends and brick chimney stacks at each end. The 19th-century addition is constructed in painted stone rubble with a slate roof and ridge tiles, hipped to the left end and gabled to the right, with an axial stack having a rendered shaft.

The overall plan is L-shaped. The original section comprises a 3-room range, with the outer rooms heated from end stacks and the central room apparently never heated. A one-room wing on the same axis as the 19th-century addition is now incorporated under the slate roof; this room was heated from a rear lateral stack and appears to have functioned as a hall or kitchen. The unheated room and end room in the thatched range may represent a later 17th or 18th-century addition to the original house, part of which was demolished when the 19th-century addition was constructed at the left end. The 19th-century addition contains a stair hall and entrance hall with two rooms to the left, heated from back-to-back fireplaces from the axial stack. An outshut stands behind the central room in the 17th-century range, and a 20th-century addition sits at the rear of the 19th-century building.

Externally, the 17th-century range is two storeys with an asymmetrical four-window front. The first floor has four 19th-century 16-pane sashes with segmental arches. The ground floor features a 20th-century glazed door to the left and two similar 16-pane sashes with segmental arches. The right end is rendered with a 20th-century 4-pane window at first-floor level. The 19th-century range to the left is also two storeys with an asymmetrical four-window front; the first floor has four 19th-century 16-pane sashes with segmental arches and keystones, and the ground floor has two 16-pane sashes. A 20th-century glazed door with external stone steps stands at the left end.

At the rear of the 17th-century range, there are two 20th-century windows at ground-floor level to the right and two 2-light 20th-century casements in eyebrow dormers. A 20th-century door opens to the left. A 20-pane window lights the stair, and the pitch of the thatched roof extends over both the stair and the outshut. The single-storey outshut to the left features a 20th-century window and door, with a 20th-century window at the right side. The rear of the 19th-century range has three 20th-century replacement 16-pane sashes with keystones at first-floor level. To the left stands a large 24-pane window with cambered arch and keystone lighting the 19th-century stair hall. At ground-floor level to the right, a single-storey 20th-century addition with hipped roof and French windows extends from the building. To the left, a large external stack serves the rear lateral fireplace in the 17th-century hall or kitchen, with a stepped top.

The interior was not fully inspected. The 19th-century stair hall contains an open-well stair with stick balusters. A solid masonry wall separates the stair hall from the 17th-century room to the right. In the hall or kitchen, the rear lateral fireplace has a re-set chamfered timber lintel and two cloam ovens, one on each side.