Kellygreen Farmhouse

ST TUDY SX 07 NW

1/145 Kellygreen Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Circa C17 origins, partly rebuilt in C18 and extended in early C19. Slatestone rubble with reused granite quoins. Rag slate roof with gable ends continuing over 2-storey rear outshot. Brick end stacks and brick stack to outshot on rear right. Plan: Original plan uncertain and as interior was not accessible at time of survey (1986) the chronological development is unclear. The house is of at least 2 rooms in depth and has a straight joint near the front elevation indicating partial rebuilding. Entrance near centre with the 2 front rooms heated by end stacks. 2- storey service range to rear with kitchen on rear right, heated by end stack and stair near centre. Dairy probably to rear left. Exterior: 2-storeys. Asymmetrical 3:1 window front with circa late C18 or early C19 sashes. 2 tall 18-pane hornless sashes to left with C20 glazed door in centre and 30-pane sash to right. On first floor are two 12-pane sashes flanking an 18-pane sash with a 30-pane sash to right. The windows to left have dressed stone arches and the ground and first floor windows on right have timber lintels. Remains of slate tombstone attached on right hand gable end, the inscription reading in 1935 "Sic transit Gloria mundi. John Rowe, Fecit 1729", now partly eroded. Interior: Not accessible. The manor of Kellygreen was anciently the property of the Barrets who resided at the Barton house on or near this site. Gilbert records the remains of a private chapel nearby in 1838 and there are several pieces of dressed granite in the garden in front of the farmhouse. Gilbert, Davies Parochial History of Cornwall founded on the manuscript histories of Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, 1935 Polsue, J Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 1867 reprinted in 1974

Listing NGR: SX0459675826