Megan House Prospect House

SS 81 SE CRUWYS MORCHARD PENNYMOOR 2/92 Prospect House and Megan House - II 2 houses, formerly 1. C18 or earlier origins. Whitewashed rendered stone and cob; thatched roof with plain ridge, hipped at right end, gabled at left end, half-hipped at end of wing. End stacks to main range with brick shafts the right end stack cob, projecting lateral stack to wing with brick shaft. Plan: Single depth main range, 3 rooms wide with probably later 1 room plan front left wing forming an overall L plan. 2 storey C19 or C20 rear addition to main range. The early plan form is not entirely clear : the main range may have been a 3 room plan house with a central unheated dairy and principal heated rooms on either side, possibly evolved from a 3 room and through passage plan arrangement but there is insufficient surviving evidence for certainty. All 3 fireplaces have bread ovens (1 blocked). The house is divided into 2 : Megan House to the left. 2 storeys. 1:3 window asymmetrical front, wing to the left. Propect House (the 2 right hand rooms of the main range) has an approximately central entrance facing a straight stair with a glazed porch with a corrugated iron roof and small C20 timber windows. Megan House (left hand room of main range and wing) has a glazed porch in the angle with Propect House, entrance into wing ; 2 C20 casements in end wall of wing. Interior : Mostly modernized ; Megan House has a probably C18 open fireplace in the wing with stone rubble jambs, a chamfered timber lintel and a bread oven. The fireplace in the main range is partly blocked and may conceal early features. Propect House has a probably C18 fireplace to the right end stack with stone rubble jambs, a plain lintel and bread oven. A timber lingel in the right hand wall of the stack suggests that there may have been a smoking chamber. There is a small plain fireplace on the first floor with cob jambs and a timber lintel. Roofspace of Prospect House only inspected, the roof timbers are porbably C19 or C20, slender unsquared poles both for the main trusses, which have metal fixings and for rafters; similar battens.

Listing NGR: SS8641211243