Halwyn

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SW 84 SW KEA

2/95 Halwyn

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Former farmhouse and barn now used as farmbuildings. Circa early C17 or earlier and remodelled and extended in the C18 and C19. Slatestone rubble walls with some cob in cross wall, and to upper part of barn walls. Partly fallen scantle slate roofs over house with brick chimney over gable end to right and hip to left. Corrugated iron roof over barn with gable ends. Roof over house was probably originally steeper and at slightly higher level. Plan of L-shape overall, of 3-room plan to house probably with cross or through passage originally. Chimney breast to gable end, right, (east) serving lower end room and chimney breast between hall, middle, and room beyond hall to left. Projecting window bay to front, left of hall, and semi-circular stair projection to rear, between hall and inner room, left. Circa C18 small rear wing left, linked to 2-storey barn beyond, and further circa C17/C18 1-room service outshut to rear of right-hand room. 2 storeys, but floors of house part mostly removed. Irregular 3-window south front with ground floor openings only; projection left of diddle with doorway, formerly windows; further doorway to left and window to far left; window to right of projection was once a doorway (but may be in original lateral chimney position) and far right-hand window is in altered opening. Interior has some interesting C17 or earlier features in each of the 3 original rooms. Left-hand room has fireplace with chamfered and stopped oak corbels supporting oak lintel with straight chamfer with stepped and runout stops. Chamber fireplace above, but adjoining front corner, also has projecting breast over but oak lintel is carried on 1 corbel to right and with other end of lintel set into chimney breast wall. Beside this chimney breast to left (north) is blocked doorway, formerly leading to hall, and to rear of blocked doorway is newel or winder stair; now filled with rubble, but formerly to give access from hall to chamber above inner room, and chamber over hall which may have once been open to the roof. Further doorway, cut through and then blocked, to rear wall, formerly leading to later service wing. Hall has 1 surviving oak cross beam with straight chamfer with stepped and runout stops and 9 sawn off joist ends within mortices to each side. Fireplace position may have been to front wall, altered in the C19, or in what seems to be a hall window bay to front left; or back to back with inner room hearths in cross wall, left. Oak lintel low down to rear wall, right, opens up yet a further possibility. Rubble and cob wall between hall and lower end is later insertion and 2 chamfered oak lintels over doorway, towards rear, are reused roof timbers with slots from former use probably as truss blades morticed for collars. Lower end room, right (east) has oak beam ends in front and back walls for chamber floor. 2 doorways to rear wall far left (west) and left of middle have oak lintels over and slots for jambs. Left-hand doorway leads into yard at rear but other doorway leads into outshut and retains its original chamfered cambered oak head with mortice slots for originally shouldered jambs. Later fireplace to right-hand gable wall with rubble jambs and cloam oven to left (north). Outshut to rear of this room has 3 keeping places to left (west) wall, and oak beam projecting from original rear wall, right. This is a most interesting and rare early building in this party of Cornwall and would benefit from being recorded more thoroughly. At the time of survey the house was in a derelict state.

Listing NGR: SW8421140510

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