Beara Farmhouse And Cottage

BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR SX 77 SW 6/35 Beara Farmhouse and Cottage -

• II

Pair of cottages, formerly a farmhouse and cottage. Early or mid C19. Solid walls, probably of stone; farmhouse covered with slate-hanging at the front, the cottage rendered. Slated roofs, the farmhouse with catslide roof at the rear. Farmhouse has granite ashlar chimney stack on each gable, the cottage (to left) a rendered stack on left gable. Farmhouse has symmetrical plan, 2 rooms deep and 2 rooms wide; cottage has 1 room plan. 2-storeys. Farmhouse has 3-window front; all windows have 3-light C19 wood casements with 4 panes per light in ground storey and 3 panes in second storey. In centre of ground storey a granite ashlar entrance-porch with moulded cornice round the top: doorway segmental-headed with round-arched windows in side walls. Cottage is 2-windows wide with casements matching those in the farmhouse, except for the right-hand second storey window which has 12 panes per light. Doorway in right-hand bay of ground storey has open fronted stone entrance- porch with gabled roof, the front of gable slate-hung; old plank inner door. Attached to right-hand front corner of farmhouse is a former outbuilding, now converted to living accommodation. This has exposed granite rubble walls and a half-hipped slated roof.

Listing NGR: SX7179373904