Gatherley Farmhouse

Farmhouse of circa late 16th and 17th century origins, substantially remodelled in the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with granite dressings and has a slate roof, hipped at the left end, with a large stone stack on the ridge. An adjoining 19th-century block has a hipped roof with a central valley and two stone stacks. The extent of the 19th-century alterations, along with the reuse and addition of mullioned windows, has largely obscured the original plan; it may have been a three-room and cross-passage house, with the left-hand half representing the higher end, containing two rooms heated from a central stack. Around the mid-19th century, the lower end seems to have been completely rebuilt as a taller, wider rectangular block to which a probably 17th-century porch was attached, forming a T-shaped plan.

The building has a two-and-a-half-storey design with an asymmetrical two-by-two-window front. Throughout, mullioned windows are present; most of the mullions appear to date from the late 19th century, although some hoodmoulds and sills seem original. The windows contain 19th-century casements with glazing bars. The earlier section of the house has a circa late 16th-century arched granite doorway on the front, at the left, under a square-headed hoodmould, which may have been relocated. Two ground-floor four-light windows have king mullions and hoodmoulds. Between the windows is a small single-storey square bay with a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould. Two first-floor mullioned windows are present; one is two-light and the other three-light, both beneath hoodmoulds. The mid-19th-century block features deep eaves and a probably 17th-century central gabled porch with kneelers and a moulded stopped arched doorway with carved spandrels under a square-headed hoodmould. An arched, stopped inner doorway leads into the porch. There are a three-light and a two-light mullioned windows on the first floor, both with hoodmoulds. Additionally, there are two, three, and four-light mullioned windows to the left and right returns.

Inside, on the ground floor to the left, there is a large, square-headed, roll-moulded 17th-century granite fireplace with a cloam oven. A chamfered arched stopped doorway leads into the rear outshut. The second fireplace to the stack is partially blocked and may conceal earlier features. The roof space was not inspected, but the roof timbers are said to date from the 20th century. Gatherley Farmhouse is documented from the late 16th century. It is an interesting building, notable for the survival of late 16th and 17th-century features and the 19th-century remodelling which reuses and repeats earlier window forms.