Wooda And Attached Front Garden Wall

This is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to 1804, with few later alterations. It is constructed of slatestone and granite rubble with stone dressings, with some slate hanging to the upper portion of the front elevation. The building has a hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and end brick stacks, while a rear outshut has a slate roof with a brick shaft stack to its right side.

The plan is based on a two-room layout, with a central entrance leading to a passage and a stair hall located in the rear outshut. The principal rooms are situated to the front right and left, each heated by an end stack. A rear integral outshut provides a kitchen to the right and an unheated dairy to the left. A covered way connects the back kitchen to a detached kitchen/bakehouse, which has a side stack.

The two-storey, symmetrical front elevation has three windows. Above ground floor sill level, the front is slate-hung. The first floor features a central 16-pane sash window and 12-pane sash windows with sidelights to either side, all with cambered stone heads and keystones. On the ground floor, a central hipped hood with a dentil cornice is supported by wooden piers, sheltering a half-glazed door with margin glazing. To the right and left are 12-pane sashes with sidelights. The sill level of the left window has been lowered to accommodate a 15-pane sash with sidelights. The right side has a 6-pane window at first floor level. The rear kitchen has a 4-pane sash window. The left side is otherwise blank, displaying a datestone reading 1804/KM. The dairy has a 2-light casement window at ground floor level. At the rear, the two-storey integral outshut creates a catslide roofline. The kitchen has a 24-pane sash window and a doorway sheltered by a flat stone arch, with a 15-pane window above. A 12-pane window illuminates the stairwell. The dairy has two 2-light casements, one with 6 panes and L hinges, the other unglazed. The upper floor of the dairy has a small gabled dormer and a raking dormer, each containing a 2-light casement.

Inside, the front rooms on the ground floor contain chimneypieces and panelled window shutters. A dog-leg staircase is located in the stairwell. The kitchen has a slate floor, a fireplace with a recess to the right, possibly for an oven. The dairy includes slate shelves, a granite slating trough with a wooden lid and door, and sliding vents. It was partitioned in the 20th century. The kitchen and dairy contain roughly hewn chamfered wood beams, one of which has a ‘IIIX’ scratch carving, possibly indicating re-used timbers.

The detached kitchen/bakehouse, connected to the rear by the covered way, is square in plan, with a 20th-century pyramidal slate roof and a truncated stack to the side. It has a door and window on the front and an interior with a slate floor, a fireplace with a heavy cambered timber lintel, and a cloam oven to the left. A slate sill is present beneath the window.

Attached to the front is a garden wall, enclosing a roughly triangular area. The wall is constructed of rubble with slate coping. A section on the left is approximately 2 metres high and 10 metres long. Along the front, the wall reaches about 1 metre in height and sweeps inwards to a gateway on the right, topped with plain wooden palings fixed to piers at intervals. The gateway has plain granite piers and a wooden railing gate.