Gatherley Farmhouse

SX 38 SE LIFTON

5/116 Gatherley Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Circa late C16 and C17 origins, substantial C19 remodelling. Stone rubble with granite dressings. The earlier build has a slate roof hipped at the left end and a large stone stack on the ridge. The adjoining C19 build has a hipped roof with central valley and 2 stone stacks. The extent of the C19 alterations and the re-use and addition of mullioned windows has largely obscured the original plan: it may have been a 3 room and cross passage house, the present left hand half being the higher end with 2 rooms heated from a central stack. In the circa mid C19 the lower end seems to have been completely rebuilt as a taller, wider rectangular block to which a probably C17 porch was attached, the whole forming a T plan. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 + 2 window front, with mullioned windows throughout: most of the mullions look circa late C19 although some hoodmoulds and sills appear to be original. C19 casements with glazing bars to all mullioned windows. The early build has a circa late C16 arched granite doorway on the front at the left under a square- headed hoodmould, doorway may be re-sited. 2 ground floor 4-light windows have king mullions and hoodmoulds. Between the windows is a small single-storey square-bay with a 3-light mullioned window with hoodmould. 2 first floor mullioned windows; 1 2-light, 1 3-light under hoodmoulds. The mid C19 build has deep eaves and a probably C17 central gabled porch with kneelers and a moulded stopped arched doorway with carved spandrels under a square-headed hoodmould. Arched stopped inner doorway to porch. 1 3-light and 1 2-light first floor mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. There are also 2, 3 and 4-light mullioned windows to the left and right returns of the block. Interior Ground floor left has a large square-headed roll-moulded C17 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. Roofspace not inspected, roof timbers said to be C20. Gatherley is documented in the late C16. An interesting house, both for the survival of late C16/C17 features and for the C19 remodelling re-using and repeating the earlier window forms.

Listing NGR: SX3750382862