Growen Farmhouse And Adjacent Range Of Farmbuildings To South

Growen Farmhouse is a late 16th or 17th century building, extensively remodelled in the 19th century, with an adjacent range of farm buildings. The farmhouse is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, roughcast render, and a mottled-grey slate roof, which is hipped and gabled at the ends. It likely began as a three-room plan with a through-passage, with the lower end situated to the right of the passage, and a rear parlour wing forming an L-shaped plan. An axial stack marks the hall fireplace, backing onto the through-passage, and there are two axial stacks in the rear wing, one likely a former end stack, each accompanied by brick shafts. The front of the farmhouse has a three-window arrangement; the first-floor windows are 12-pane hornless sashes, with bracketed sills and moulded architraves. There are two tripartite hornless sashes, 4;12;4, under heavy lintels with moulded architraves, to the left of a timber, glazed, slate-roofed porch. A two-light window with 12-pane hornless sashes per light is situated to the right of the porch. The left-hand elevation has three three-light casement windows to the first floor, and two two-light and one four-light casement windows to the ground floor. A wide panelled door, sheltered by a simple canopy on shaped brackets, is positioned at the junction of the wing and the main range. Inside, the parlour wing’s large end fireplace has 19th-century detailing, and the flooring in what is now the kitchen consist of the same red tiles, seemingly made on the farmstead. Internal panelled shutters are also present. An alcove outside the kitchen wing contains a 19th-century fitted blue and white porcelain wash bowl. Some original features may remain hidden behind later work, and no roof trusses are visible in the upper rooms. The farm buildings comprise two distinct phases of construction. The earlier section, dating to the early 19th century, is two storeys high with two pointed windows to each storey, each featuring a Y-tracey design. Access to an upper door (studded and pointed) is via an external stone staircase, with a lower entrance below. The end wall of this section was originally a timber frame construction with brick nogging and weatherboarding, but was later incorporated into an internal partition. A later extension, dating to the late 19th century, is constructed of random rubble with brick trim and weatherboarding above.