Bank Barn And Adjoining Piggery Immediately East Of Higher Penpol Cottage

SW 72 NE MAWNAN HIGHER PENPOL

9/212 Bank barn and adjoining piggery - immediately east of Higher Penpol Cottage

GV II

Bank barn and piggery. Circa mid and late C19. Killas rubble with granite dressings. Scantle slate hipped roof over the barn, corrugated asbestos roof with gable end over the piggery. Plan: Overall L-shaped plan. Barn is probably granary over stables with opposing loading/winnowing doorways to first floor. Built into a high bank at the rear. Piggery adjoins at right angles in front of the left-hand side and has 3 doorways in its right-hand front wall and 3 feeding hatches with dressed granite troughs in its left-hand (rear) wall. There is a later-Cl9 lean-to at the right-hand end of the barn. Exterior: 2 storeys (barn). West-south-west front of barn has nearly symmetrical arrangement of doorways and windows towards its right-hand side. There are 2 doorways and 2 windows on their left and right on the ground floor; a doorway (midway between ground floor doorways) to the first floor and a window over the right-hand window. Old ledged doors and old windows. Piggery has some original shutters to feeding hatches. Interior: Original floor and roof structures. Piggery has its original slate partitions and feeding hatches.

Listing NGR: SW7723328514