Higher Nansloe Farmhouse And Attached Wall

HELSTON

SW64NE DEGIBNA LANE 631-1/2/123 Higher Nansloe Farmhouse and attached wall

II

Farmhouse. C17, remodelled and extended mid C19. Local rubble with granite dressings and some cob with incised render replacing stucco to front of original part; hipped scantle slate roof to later range, otherwise replaced with asbestos slate sweeping lower at rear; brick end stacks. Rectangular plan: original 2-room plan (now 1 room) house with continuous outshut at rear and mid C19 stair hall and parlour extension (with roof at right-angles to main roof) on the left. 2 storeys; 3-window range and taller 1-window-range extension on the left. Original and very rare late C17 oak 3-light mullioned window to ground-floor right with internal cyma moulding and original saddle bars to right-hand light and later iron bars inside; early C19 hornless sash on the left; horizontal-sliding sashes to 1st-floor left and right, all with glazing bars; later smaller central casement window over probable blocked doorway. Extension has original 12-pane hornless sashes except to 2-window-range. Left-hand return where left-hand ground floor window replaced with doorway C20 and original round-arched stair window with fanlight head. Rear of original house has two C18 horizontal-sliding sashes (presumably resited) with thick glazing bars except for removal of vertical glazing bars to ground-floor window; other rear windows later; old planked door. INTERIOR: at right-hand end of original house is very large stone fireplace with cambered roughly-chamfered hardwood lintel and possible smoking chamber on its right with its own flue rejoining main flue higher up; mid C19 moulded joists; boarded partitions hidden and mid C19 open-well open-string staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail scrolled over turned newel post. Interior of 1st floor and remainder of extension not inspected. Subsidiary features: retaining wall on the right (upper part rebuilt C20) linked to curved entrance with dressed granite piers and threshhold of reused cider press base.

Listing NGR: SW6616426288