Lower Town

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ST ERVAN PENROSE SW 87 SE 3/207 Lower Town

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Probably originally a farmhouse, later used as a beerhouse, now a private house. Probably an C18 remodelling of an earlier house and with C19 alterations and late C20 repairs. Limewashed slate rubble. Rag slate roof with hipped end over higher left hand end. Slates replaced over slightly lower level right hand lower end which is gabled; rag slate half-hipped roof to rear wing. All roofs have red clay ridge tiles. Stacks at either end of main range and rear wing have rebuilt red brick shafts. Plan: The existing house is probably an C18 remodelling of an earlier house. It is L-shaped on plan, 3 rooms in the main range, a fourth room in a wing behind the left hand room and what is probably a circa early C19 outshut at the front of the lower right end. All the internal partitions are of plastered stud except for the wall between the outshut and the main range which is a solid masonry. The lower right hand room is the kitchen with a gable end stack with an oven; the central room is unheated and has an axial passage at the front into which the main front entrance leads. Between the central unheated room and the left hand room there is a straight staircase rising from the axial passage and dividing at the top. The left hand room is heated from a gable end stack also with an oven, and the wing behind contains the parlour with a gable end stack. The single story outshut at the front of the lower right end was probably the dairy and has an open-fronted well-house at the front. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window front to higher left end has C20 plastic windows in earlier openings with slate cills, the ground floor window has a cambered brick arch. C19 plank door to right with a slate canopy in the angle with the outshut to the right in front of the lower end. The outshut is single storey and the main roof continues down over it as a catslide. C19 plank door centre of the outshut with a C20 2-light casement to the right with glazing bars and a slate cill, and a pump-house to the left with a rag slate lean-to roof open front and a late C19 cast- iron pump. Rear elevation has exposed slate bed-rock at the base of the walls. Asymmetrical fenestration of C20 plastic windows in earlier openings with slate cills. Later doorway to left of centre with a brick segmental arch. Wing at higher right hand end projects. Interior All the internal partitions are of plastered stud, the doors are ledged and plank and the floors are slate. The unheated central room has an early C19 fixed- light 21-pane window facing the axial passage. The lower right hand room has a fireplace with a rough chamfered timber lintel and cloam oven; and a granite trough to the side of the fireplace. The ceilings on the lower room and in the centre of the house have soft wood joists. The left hand higher end room has roughly chamfered closely-spaced ceiling joists and a large open fireplace with a cambered brick arch and cloam oven. The ground floor room in the rear wing has thin ceiling joists with ovolo edge moulding, a C20 tiled fireplace and an C18 cupboard to the left with fielded panel doors and shaped shelves above. Roofs: The roof over the main range has collars lapped and pegged to the faces of the straight principals. The roof over the rear wing has principals with straight feet exposed in the first floor room.

Listing NGR: SW8749070634

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