East Millfield

FARMHOUSE

Probably George Truefitt, late 19th century. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan farmhouse with U-plan steading. Rough-faced, squared and snecked granite finely finished to margins. Sloping cills; gableted dormers with ball finials to attic floor.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; boarded timber door with letterbox fanlight and glazed panel flanking to left of centre bay; 4-light bipartite windows to flanking bays left and right. Dormer to each bay of attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; 3 irregularly placed windows to ground floor; window off-centre to right of gablehead. Harled single storey addition to outer right, boarded timber door and letterbox fanlight.

NW ELEVATION: not seen 1998.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; 2 2-light windows to ground floor; window off-centre to left of gablehead. Harled single storey addition to outer left, boarded timber door with letterbox fanlight.

Replacement timber casement windows. Rosemary tiled roof with terracotta ridge; diamond tiles to rear. Coped rough-faced granite gablehead stacks with circular cans. PVCu rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

STEADING

Probably George Truefitt, late 19th century. Single storey, U-plan steading. Coursed, rough-faced granite with ladder snecking to NW and SW; squared and snecked granite to NE; long and short dressings. Sloping cills.

N RANGE:

9-bay, V-plan.

Courtyard: 2-leaf boarded timber door to centre bay at angle, glazed 2-leaf timber door to tower above; window and boarded timber door in 2 flanking bays to right; gabled bay advanced to penultimate bay to right with 3-light window to ground floor, 2-light window to attic floor, doorway to left return; 2-leaf boarded timber door to outer right, 2-leaf boarded timber door set in gablehead of right return. Boarded timber door to 3rd bay from left, flanked to left and right by 4-light bipartite windows; 2-leaf boarded timber door flanked to left by large pane window in bay to outer left; left return blank. Rear elevations not seen 1998.

SW RANGE:

3-bay, rectangular-plan.

Courtyard: blank slate-roofed bay to centre, flanked to left by flat-roofed bay with boarded timber door to left return, convex-shouldered fireplace to flat-roofed bay to right.

Outer Elevation: 2 2-leaf boarded timber doors.

Variety of timber-framed glazing patterns. Grey slate roofs with fishscale banding and lead ridge. Coped granite gablehead and wallhead stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS: battered granite rubble wall to SE of farmhouse with rubble coping, gateway to E and W.