Body's Court

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CALSTOCK HIGHER DIMSON SX 4271-4371 7/114 Body's Court II Farmhouse, now house. Early C17, with alterations of later C17, and later alterations and additions. Granite and slatestone rubble, partly rendered and partly painted, with granite dressings. Asbestos slate roof, hipped in 2 ranges ; end stack to left, formerly at the left gable end ; axial hall stack in granite ashlar with cornice and shaped top. Plan: 2-room plan with cross passage ; as described from the original back of the house, the hall is to right, heated by an axial stack backing onto the passage, and the lower end room is to left, heated by a gable end stack. A stair tower was added to the rear of the passage, which appears to have been built at the same time as a one-room plan addition to rear of the hall, since the access to the stair tower is through this room; the additional room is heated from a stack at the outer side, and has been considerably remodelled in circa C19. Part of the lower end room to front has been partitioned as a dairy with built-in stone trough. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical front, probably originally the back of the house ; the doorway to the passage has chamfered granite surround, with segmental arch with carved leaves over, moulded jambs with step stops, C20 door. 16-pane light above. To right, a chamfered granite 2-light window with hood mould and casements. This was probably originally the back window of the hall. At first floor an inserted C20 2- light casement ; to right there is a blocked window at first floor, visible internally. The wall steps forward to the lower end to left, with a 2-light casement at ground floor with C20 granite cill and lintel, C20 casement at first floor to left. The right end has a 3-light casement at ground floor with C20 granite lintel, C19 12-pane sash at first floor, inserted when the chamber over the hall was partitioned. At the left end a single light storey lean-to porch to left. At the rear, the lower end lighting the dairy. Single storey lean-to porch to left. At the rear, the lower end has 3-light C20 casement at ground and first floor and 2-light casement to left at mid level. To left, the inner side of the stair tower has 4-pane light and 12-pane sash ; rear has ground floor C19 12-pane sash and 4-panelled door, first floor two 12-pane sashes. Interior: The lower end room to left has C20 slate floor ; the dairy is very small, and the stone trough appears to have been built in to the foundations of the house. The passage has a C20 slate floor ; C19 inserted newel stair to rear of passage. To rear right is a doorway to the hall, with wooden ovolo-moulded frame. The hall has slate floor. Fireplace with granite jambs and flat lintel, carved with vestigial ogee forming three sections, with carved oak leaves and animals, possibly sheep and fishes. Cloam oven inserted to rear left. Chamfered and step stopped beams. The wall between the hall and the rear room is a stud partition ; this room gives access to the stair tower, with rebuilt winder stair. On the first floor, the chamber over the hall has granite fireplace, with moulded jambs and flat lintel, vestigial ogee with carved leaves. Blocked window at the front of the room, with splayed reveals ; the window to front is a later insertion, when the room was partitioned and the sash inserted in the right end. The feet of the principals are visible, chamfered and straight. Small chamber over the passage with keeping hole. The roof over the hall and the rear room was raised and rebuilt as one in circa C19. 2 early trusses remain over the hall, the principal rafters halved and pegged, with cambered collars also halved and pegged to the principals ;. the principals are chamfered up to the collar level ; formerly had threaded purlins. Roof over the lower end probably of C18, the principal rafter halved and pegged but not chamfered.

Listing NGR: SX4258971389

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