Higher Rosewarrick Farmhouse

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LANIVET SX 06 SW 8/99 Higher Rosewarrick Farmhouse - II

Farmhouse. Probably mid C17, with addition of the circa late C17-early C18 ; mid C19 addition and some C19 alterations. Painted granite rubble, the rear roughcast over cob. Rag slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks, with brick shaft to left, the gable end stack to right now in an axial position, with rendered shaft. Plan: 2 room plan with cross passage ; each room heated from a gable end stack. Probably in late C17, the front of the room to right was extended forward, and an addition of one-room plan, unheated, was made to the right end. In circa mid C19, an addition was made to rear left, attached to the main house by a lean-to ; this is a one-room plan house, heated from a gable end stack to right, and with central entrance at the front. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 3-window front. To left, there is a C20 window at ground floor and C20 2-light 6-pane casement at first floor. Plank door with glazed panel and pitched slate hood, set in the angle to the projecting bay to right. The bay has 2-light C20 casement at ground floor and single C20 light at first floor. C20 lean-to to front right. The end room to right has single light at ground floor and 2-light 6-pane casement at first floor. The right end is blind ; the roof is half-hipped, and the upper level of the building is in cob. The left end has large external stack. At the rear, there is a 4-pane light at ground floor to left ; 2- light casement at ground and first floor to the central room. At the left side is the front of the C19 addition ; this is 2-storeys, in rendered stone rubble, slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends, with gable end stack with brick shaft to right. Symmetrical 2-window front, at first floor with two 20-pane sashes, ground floor has central brick porch with 4-panelled inner door and C20 plate-glass window. Left side has 24-pane light at ground floor. Rear blind, in granite rubble. Interior: The two rooms to the original house are now one room. The room to left retains roughly hewn beams. C20 range inserted in the fireplace at the left end. The fireplace at the right end has a cambered timber lintel with rubble jambs, partly infilled in C20. The room to right is at a higher floor level. At first floor, the feet of the principal rafters are visible, probably of C19, saw-cut. Roof space not accessible.

Listing NGR: SX0173363724

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