Gear Farmhouse And Garden Wall To Front

SW 72 SW ST MARTIN -IN-MENEAGE 4/220 Gear Farmhouse and garden wall to - front

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Farmhouse. C18, extended circa late C19. Painted rubble with dressed granite quoins and jambs, wooden lintels to original part and granite lintels to C19 part; slate sills. Scantle slate roofs part grouted, part slurried; C18 or earlier handmade crested ridge tiles over C18 part. Tall brick chimney over original hipped side wall left and brick chimneys over gable ends of C19 extension right and gable end of rear wing. Originally a T-shaped plan of 2 rooms hall/kitchen left and parlour right with cross passage between leading to stair in central rear lean-to stair projection. Cob-walled pantry outshut, with chamber partly in roof space over, at rear of parlour may also be C18. Extended circa late C19 with slightly taller wing on right of parlour and with service wing at right angles behind, possibly apple store. 2 storeys. Overall 4 window south-west front: 2 window originally symmetrical 2 window C18 front with central doorway, left, and taller regular 2 window C19 front right. The C18 part has circa early C19 16-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor openings and C20 casements to ground floor openings. The right hand window opening has been widened in the C20. The door and open gabled porch are also C20. The C19 front has original 4-pane horned sashes. The rear is little altered and has old sashes and casements. Interior has some C18 features including bowtell moulded beams in the kitchen; closed string dog leg stair with balusters boarded in; some original panelling adjoining the stair and some 3-panel doors. The flush beaded panelling at the left hand side of the passage is circa early C19 and the simple pine muntin and plank partition on the right is dated 1894. Rubble wall surround shallow rectangular garden to front, pair of granite gate piers in front of doorway. This house has survived little altered on all sides since the C19 and the rear is as attractive as the front.

Listing NGR: SW7219924918