Minnimeer Farmhouse And Adjoining Carriage House

Minnimeer Farmhouse and the adjoining carriage house date from around the mid 17th century, with the carriage house added in the mid 19th century. The buildings are constructed of stone rubble and cob, topped with a slate roof featuring gable ends. The end stacks are rendered, with the right-hand stack made of roughly dressed stone and slate galetting, likely inserted into the cob end wall.

The farmhouse has a two-room layout with a through passage heated by end stacks. The hall-kitchen is on the higher right side, while the smaller room, likely a parlour, is on the left. A stone rubble cross wall on the right side of the passage extends almost to the eaves. The passage is blocked at the rear by a dog-leg stair added in the 19th century. A 18th-century outshut has been added to the rear of the lower end, and the carriage house was constructed on the higher right gable end in the mid 19th century.

The exterior features two storeys, with the ground sloping steeply to the left, allowing the house to be built down the slope. The front has a regular three-window arrangement, with an early 19th-century door flanked by a three-light casement with horizontal sliding hinges to the left and a two-light casement to the right. The first floor has what are likely 19th-century two-light casements to the left and centre, and a renewed one-light casement to the right. There is a probably 19th-century stone rubble buttress to the left, with 20th-century buttresses near the centre and to the right. The carriage house, set slightly back to the right, has two storeys and features a wide brick segmental arched opening on the ground floor.

Inside, the passage and left-hand room have roughly chamfered floor joists, while the right-hand room has a boarded ceiling. The fireplace in the right-hand hall kitchen has a large chamfered granite lintel, with the fireplace opening reduced in size, likely in the 18th or 19th century, by the addition of stone rubble and granite jambs. There is also a cloam oven present. The roof structure was probably renewed in the 18th century, featuring roughly cut principals with lapped and pegged collars.