Higher Calenick Farmhouse And Wall At Approx 2M To Front (North)

Higher Calenick Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a wall at approximately 2 meters to the front (north), dating from the late 18th century, with an extension from the late 19th century that created three houses. The original part is constructed from slatestone rubble and cob with wooden lintels, while the 19th-century section is made of slatestone rubble with granite lintels. The roof is steep and covered in corrugated asbestos, which was originally thatched, with brick chimneys on the gable ends of the 18th-century part and dry Delabole slate with a hip on the left (east) side of the 19th-century part.

The original house features a plan with two nearly equal rooms flanking a cross passage that leads to a stair adjacent to the back wall of the right-hand (west) room, along with a later lean-to on the west side. The 19th-century addition was originally two houses, each with two rooms, with the left-hand house extending further to the rear and facing the east end of the range. The farmhouse is two storeys high.

The north front displays a five-window range of the taller 19th-century house on the left, with one- and two-window fronts, and to the right, the original nearly symmetrical 18th-century two-window front featuring a central doorway with an original four-panel door and a small 20th-century gabled wooden porch. The original ground floor has 12-pane hornless sash windows, while the rendered-cob first floor has 16-pane hornless sashes. There is a large rubble buttress at the right-hand corner, and some ground floor walling has been repaired in the 19th century. All sashes and a 12-pane two-light casement for the stair on the middle of the rear wall have fairly wide glazing bars with internal ovolo-mouldings and much original crown glass. The 19th-century part has original 12-pane horned sashes, with doorways located under the left-hand first floor window and to the left of the middle of the second house.

Inside the 18th-century house, the interior is simple, featuring a large hearth in the right-hand (west) room, panelled window shutters, and panelled doors. The roof structure has not been inspected but is said to be old. The front of the 18th-century house is marked by a rubble coped rubble wall. This building is a little altered 18th-century house with its original windows and a sympathetic 19th-century extension.