Taskus Farmhouse

Taskus Farmhouse is a Grade II listed farmhouse, along with its front garden walls, gate-piers, and mounting block. It dates from the late 17th century but was mostly rebuilt in the early 19th century, with a datestone from 1822 found on a farm building to the northeast. The structure is made of coursed faced granite with granite dressings and features a hipped asbestos slate roof, along with brick chimneys on the side walls and over the cross wall and gable end of the rear wing. A scantle slate roof covers the lean-to.

The farmhouse has an overall L-shaped plan, with two reception rooms at the front flanking an approximately central entrance hall that leads to a stair hall. Behind the left-hand room is an integral kitchen wing at right angles, plus a later 19th-century one-room-plan back kitchen extension. Behind the right-hand room is an integral lean-to, which was formerly a pantry, with stone steps leading down to a cellar beneath the right-hand reception room.

The exterior is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical three-window southeast front over an ashlar plinth. There is a 20th-century door and 20th-century 16-pane horned sash windows in the original openings. The interior was repaired in the 20th century after a period of neglect but retains much of the 19th-century carpentry and joinery. The granite fireplace in the kitchen likely dates from the 18th century and has a panelled overmantle. The cellar ceiling structure, which is from the 17th or 18th century, is made of oak, with the joists jointed into an axial beam that is scarfed over a central granite post.

The front and right-hand side of the front garden feature low coped granite ashlar walls, with a wide gateway aligned with the doorway of the house. The gate-piers are tall square granite monoliths topped with pyramidal caps. There is also a granite rubble mounting block adjacent to a wall that returns in front of the left side of the gateway. Some reused 17th-century and earlier dressed granite masonry is incorporated into the farm buildings, although these are not included in the listing.