Ship Inn Farmhouse

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CRANTOCK CRANTOCK SW 76 SE 4/56 Ship Inn Farmhouse (formerly., listed as Meadow Bank, 24,10.51 The Square) GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Circa mid C17, with additions of later C17; later alterations of C19, when the upper end was burnt and demolished circa 1900. Few later alterations. Slatestone rubble and cob ; painted front. Thatched roof with gable ends. The left gable end shares a stack with the adjoining house to left. The right gable end has large stack with rubble shaft and shaped top. The front gable end to the wing has stack with brick shaft, probably of C19. Plan: Probably originally a 2-room plan house, with each room heated from a gable end stack and passage between the two rooms. Larger room to left, probably originally the lower end room. In the later C17, a one-room plan addition was made to the front of the passage and lower end room; this was probably originally unheated, and had a small lobby entrance with stair hall at the inner side. Stack inserted in the front gable end probably circa early C19. Circa 1900, the left end was burnt and demolished, and a single storey rubble and cob lean-to added to rear right. Exterior: Asymmetrical 2-storey front; the front wing is projecting to the left, and the main range extends to right. The wing has late C19 porch with hipped roof at the left side with open front and C20 half-glazed door. C20 2-light casement at ground floor to right and first floor to left. The front gable end has 2 inserted C20 casements, one formerly an early window. At ground floor there may originally have been a window, with the lintel remaining. To right, the main range has C20 2-light casement at ground and first floor. The left gable end is concealed by the adjoining house. The right gable end is a blind rubble wall. 3-light casement in the lean-to to right. At the rear; the main range has C20 stable door, and C20 2-light casement with timber lintel; first floor has C20 2-light casement and 4-pane sash. The lean- to to left has door at the inner side. Interior: The main range has 2 rooms ; the doorway into the room to left, possibly the site of the original passage entrance, has wooden lintel, chamfered with scroll stops. There was formerly a stud partition to left of the doorway. The room to right has C19 beams and C20 end fireplace with stone shelf to right and spice cupboard with chamfered wooden lintel. Splayed reveal to the front window. In the front wing, there is a C19 winder stair with stick balusters and columnar newel; cupboard under the stair with door with strap hinges. At first floor, the room in the front wing has chimneybreast with stone corbel. In the main range, the room to right has stepped chimneybreast and a hole in the floor at the right side, leading to a recess which may have originally been a smoking chamber. Panelled partition wall probably of late C18 - early C19. Roughly hewn beams visible at the wall-tops, roof space not accessible. There is a photograph in the house, showing Ship Inn Farmhouse before the fire which removed the left end.

Listing NGR: SW7906960375

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