Carwythenack Farmhouse

Carwythenack Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around the early 19th century, likely before 1820. It is constructed from rendered shale rubble and features a bitumenised scantle slate roof with gabled ends and lower eaves at the rear over an outshut. The building has rendered gable end stacks and another rendered stack on the right side of the rear outshut.

The farmhouse has a double depth integral outshut plan, with two main front rooms; the right room is larger and both are heated by gable end stacks. An entrance passage between the two rooms leads to a dog-leg staircase located at the back in the integral outshut. The outshut also contains the kitchen, which has a side stack behind the right room, and a smaller dairy or pantry behind the left room. In the 20th century, a single-storey extension was added to the rear right, behind the kitchen.

The exterior is two storeys high and features an almost symmetrical three-window front. The original 19th-century Gothick two-light casements have two-centred arch lights, each with six panes and intersecting glazing bars in their heads, set on granite window cills. There is a doorway to the left of centre with an original 19th-century flush panel door and a painted arch top light; the head of the doorframe is arched, creating spandrel lights, which is an unusual feature. The rear elevation includes an original 19th-century 12-pane sash window lighting the staircase to the right of centre, along with two 19th-century horizontally sliding sashes to the right and a 20th-century concrete block single-storey extension to the left.

The interior has been partly inspected and retains its unaltered plan, with much original carpentry and joinery, including a dog-leg stair with stick balusters and panelled doors. In 1820, C.S. Gilbert described the now-demolished mansion Carwythenack as "lately much improved," noting enhancements to the plantation, walks, and waterfalls. Carwythenack Farmhouse was likely built as part of these improvements. The farmhouse was formerly in the parish of Constantine before the parish boundaries were changed.