Badash Farmhouse and Attached Garden Walls and Pump

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LAUNCESTON

SX38SW LINK ROAD 660-1/2/86 Badash Farmhouse and attached garden 21/09/92 walls and pump

GV II

Farmhouse, used as meeting house for early Methodists. Early C18 incorporating masonry from earlier, probable C17 house. Rubble walls much of which is slate hung including front; steeply-pitched U-plan hipped rag slate roof with gabled returns and C18 coved eaves cornice, returned at the ends; some C17 crested clay ridge tiles; slatehung end stacks and older rubble lateral stack towards rear on right. Shallow double-depth plan, plus rear wing on right mostly rebuilt mid/late C19. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window front. Original 12-pane hornless sashes with thick glazing bars to 1st floor over early or mid C19 twelve-pane hornless sashes and central doorway with C18 six-panel door with fielded panels within mid C19 glazed box porch with end pilasters and moulded cornice and pair of top-glazed doors, 6-panes per light. Many of the large hanging slates are inscribed including one with "William Sargent, November 18th 1798" and a picture of a man resembling John Wesley on the left. Rear has original central round-headed stair sash with fanlight head and thick glazing bars; to slate-hung right-hand gable is a rare 2-light mullioned window with original leaded glazing to one light and a mid C18 six-pane opening casement with thick glazing bars; also central 2-light gable dormer with 1-light blocked. Other windows are mid C19 hornless sashes or late C19 horned sashes, all with glazing bars. INTERIOR: original dog-leg stair with closed string and turned balusters; mid C19 doors and window shutters; mid C19 plaster ceiling cornices to front rooms. 1st floor and attic not inspected but likely to retain C18 roof structures. Subsidiary items: attached rubble garden walls and well-head with granite trough and lead spout dated 1846; also lean-to outhouse parallel at rear of farmhouse. HISTORY: William O'Bryan (born at Gunwen Farm Lusulyan 6th February 1778) following expulsion from the Weslyan Conference, became leader of a movement known as the Bryanites. He founded The Bible Christian Society on 9th October 1815. On 11th February 1819 O'Bryan and his family moved to Badash from Kilkhampton. The first conference of the new body was held at Launceston on 17th August 1819, the 2nd one at Badash 2 years later. It is possible that Badash Farmhouse was already a regular Methodist meeting place before O'Bryan lived here. The inscribed slate is possible evidence for this. Badash was spelt Bodashe in the C16. Badash is an unusual C18 and earlier farmhouse with many rare features and is grouped with an unusually complete and unaltered range of farm buildings including a C18 granary. This house and its farm buildings are particularly important for their architectural and historic interest and are set amidst open farmland. (Spencer-Toy H: The Methodist Church at Launceston: 1964-: 53 - 57; Robbins AF: Launceston, Past and Present: Launceston: 1888-: 113, 300).

Listing NGR: SX3292683309

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Sources

Books and journals
Robbins, A F, Launceston Past and Present, (1888), 113, 300
Spencer Toy, H, The Methodist Church at Launceston, (1964), 53-57

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