Carvannel Farmhouse With Attached Garden Wall And Mounting Block

PORTREATH NORTH CLIFFS SW 64 SW 4/234 Carvannel Farmhouse with attached garden wall and mounting block

1.12.51 II Farmhouse. Early C18 or earlier, enlarged and altered. Uncoursed killas rubble with some granite quoins, thatched roof, brick chimneys. T-plan formed by long single-depth range with added outshut and rear wing. Two low storeys and 4 bays; central doorway with thin lintel; one window to the left, 2 to the right, and 4 at 1st floor, of slightly variable size but all small and furnished with 2- light horizontal-sliding sashes with glazing bars. At the extreme left end (outside the attached garden wall) the masonry incorporates quoin stones which may be the remains of the lower half of a former doorway (which would have made a baffle entry beside the principal fireplace - see Interior below). Hipped roof with gable chimneys. The features of the rear are not of special interest. Interior: at the left gable wall is a very wide fireplace with a chamfered granite jamb to the right (former massive lintel replaced with a steel beam); right-hand half of house said to have been formerly used as cowhouse. The garden wall, attached to the front wall near the left end and at the right-hand corner, enclosing an area approx. 15 metres square, is of slurried uncoursed rubble, approx. 2 metres high, but ramped up to the right-hand corner of the house, with ridged coping and a gateway in line with the door; and attached to the outer side to the right of the gate is a set of 4 mounting steps built of granite.

Listing NGR: SW6481144598