Hollyvagg Farmhouse

LEWANNICK SX 27 NE 4/8 Hollyvagg Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Circa mid C17 extended in C18. Stone rubble with granite quoins, partly slate hung with rag slates above ground floor. Slate roof with gable ends. Stone rubble end stacks and rear lateral kitchen stack. Plan: Original plan of two room and cross passage arrangement; the larger hall- kitchen on right heated by end stack and the smaller parlour on left which may have originally been unheated. The cross passage is fairly wide and there was probably a dog-leg stair to rear. In the circa mid C18 the house was extended across the rear with a kitchen to rear right heated by a rear lateral stack; a back stair to rear of the passage and a dairy to rear of the parlour. The eaves appear to have been raised about the same time the outshut was added. There is a pump room in a small outshut on the rigt hand end and a small outshut on the left hand end. Exterior: Two storeys. Slate hung above the ground floor. Almost symmetrical 3- window front with the windows disposed to the left. C19 6-panel door with C17 chamfered and ogee stopped timber lintel. Porch originally open-fronted, the slate roof supported by roughly cut granite piers; partly remodelled in C20. To left and right C19 tripartite sash windows. Three probably C19 four over eight-pane sashes on first floor. Interior: C17 chamfered wany floor joists with straight cut stops in cross passage and hall-kitchen on right. The stops indicate that the partitions flanking the wide passage are insitu and that there was a stair to the rear; the existing stair was originally a dog-leg which has been modified to form an imperial stair. The balustrade to the lower flight has thick circa C18 stick balusters and a thin rail. The hall-kitchen is heated by a large fireplace, projecting into the room; dressed granite quoins and jambs with a chamfered and ogee-stopped lintel. Putative smoking chamber to right. The parlour has unmoulded wany joists, probably originally covered by a plaster ceiling. The fireplace has a curved pentan (back) and a roughly cut lintel. Circa C17 3 plank door with strap hinges leading from original hall-kitchen into kitchen. Slight chamfered joists in kitchen. Complete dairy with slate shelves. Roof structure replaced when the eaves were raised, (not inspected).

Listing NGR: SX2875179639