Hustyn Farmhouse

ST BREOCK SX 06 NW 7/44 Hustyn Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Probably early C17 extended to rear in C18 ; possibly on earlier site. Stone rubble. Cement washed scantle slate roof with gable ends continued in catslide over rear outshot. Stone rubble end stacks with brick shafts ; the right hand stack projecting. Plan: Two room and cross or through passage plan heated by end stacks. Larger room, probably the hall kitchen, at lower end on right, heated by a large projecting stack. Extended in circa C18, with a service outshot which extends across the rear elevation. Concrete block buttress added on front right hand corner in circa mid C20. Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical three window front with C19 hornless sashes. 16-pane sash to left and 20-pane sash to right of C19 door with slate lean-to hood. First floor with three 16-pane sashes. C20 buttress on front right-hand corner. Interior: Not accessible. The farmhouse stands in an unaltered and picturesque farmyard. Hustyn with Trevorder (q.v.) belonged to the Carmynews of Fentongollan. A chapel at Hustyn was dedicated to St Katherine in 1379, although no remains appear to survive. Longden, Preb A Church and Parish of St Breoke with additions by Francis Hodges, 1968 Polsue J Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 1872 reprinted 1974.

Listing NGR: SX0041568732