Higher Nansloe Farmhouse And Attached Wall

The property is a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, with alterations and extensions from the mid-19th century. It is constructed from local rubble with granite dressings, with some areas of cob and incised render where stucco was formerly present. The roof is hipped with scantle slate to a later range, and the remainder has been replaced with asbestos slate, with a lower sweep at the rear. Brick end stacks are also present. The house has a rectangular plan, originating as a two-room plan (now one room) with a continuous outshut to the rear. A mid-19th century stair hall and parlour extension runs along the left side, with a roof set at a right angle to the main roof. The building is two storeys high, with a three-window front and a taller, one-window-range extension to the left. A particularly rare late 17th century oak three-light mullioned window with internal cyma moulding is located on the ground floor to the right, featuring original saddle bars to the right-hand light and later iron bars on the inside. An early 19th century hornless sash window is located to the left; horizontal-sliding sashes are present to the first floor on the left and right, all with glazing bars. A later smaller casement window is centrally positioned over what appears to be a blocked doorway. The extension features original 12-pane hornless sashes, with the exception of a two-window range. A 20th-century doorway has replaced a ground-floor window on the left-hand return, and an original round-arched stair window with a fanlight head remains. At the rear of the original house are two 18th-century horizontal-sliding sashes (likely repositioned), with thick glazing bars, except for the removal of vertical glazing bars to the ground-floor window; other rear windows are later, and an old planked door is present. The interior of the right-hand end of the original house reveals a very large stone fireplace with a roughly-chamfered hardwood lintel, and a potential smoking chamber with its own flue rejoining the main flue higher up. There are mid-19th century moulded joists and boarded partitions, and a mid-19th century open-well open-string staircase with stick balusters and a mahogany handrail scrolled over a turned newel post. The first floor and the remainder of the extension were not inspected. The property also includes a retaining wall on the right (the upper part rebuilt in the 20th century), linked to a curved entrance with dressed granite piers and a threshhold made from a reused cider press base.