Mill Lawn

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SX 46 NW
4/53

CALSTOCK
Calstock Road
Mill Lawn

(Formerly listed as Slimeford Farmhouse, CALSTOCK)


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Farmhouse. Probably mid C17, with addition of later C17; dated 1727, probably at
the time the roof was raised in height and other alterations were made; C19 and C20
alterations. Rendered and painted stone rubble, with painted granite dressings.
Asbestos slate roof with gable ends; axial stack with brick shaft and gable end
stack to right with brick shaft.
Plan: 2-room plan with central passage. The hall is to left, heated from the axial
stack backing on to the passage. The lower end room is to right, heated from the
gable end stack. Probably later in the C17, a hall bay was built to rear left, and a
stair tower to rear right of the hall, entered from the hall. Probably in the early
C18, a single storey outshut was added to the rear of the lower end room, probably as
an unheated dairy. The roof level was also raised. In late C20, the outshut was
raised to 2 storeys.
Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical front; the passage has a C20 gabled porch with
inner double doors ; 16-pane sash at ground floor to right with cambered brick arch,
first floor has 2 C20 windows. At the upper end the wall is stepped forward with a
glazed door and 20-pane sash with cambered brick arch at ground floor; 2-light
casement in gabled dormer dated in the plaster DTK 1727. The left end has C20 2-
light casement at ground and first floor. The right end has C18 external stack and
single attic light. The outshut has C20 window at first floor. At the rear is the
2-storey gabled hall bay, with 3-light chamfered granite window at ground floor,
similar 2-light granite window at first floor. C20 window at ground floor to left.
There is a catslide roof over the addition at the rear of the passage, which encloses
the stair tower and blocking a stair light which is visible internally; this addition
has a glazed C20 door and single light. The dairy outshut to left is of 2 storeys,
with a gable end, C20 window at ground and first floor.
Interior: The passage has a stone paved floor. The lower end room to right has slate
paved floor, gable end fireplace rebuilt in C20. From the passage there is a round-
arched chamfered granite doorway to the hall. The hall has chamfered beams with step
and run-out stops ; coffin-hatch above the fireplace. The fireplace has plain
granite jambs and lintel. In the rear wall of the hall is a blocked arched granite
doorway and a blocked half-arch, possibly originally a doorway to the stair tower,
the half-arch of uncertain function. The stair is a C20 replacement, probably not in
the original form of the stair. At first floor the feet of the principal rafters are
visible, chamfered and curved. There is a rear lateral corridor, with a recess which
may be the original site of the stair. The roof over the hall has 2 early trusses
remaining, with halved and pegged principal rafters, chamfered collars with a
pronounced camber, also halved and pegged, and trenched purlins. The roof over the
hall bay is only partially remaining, formerly had halved and dovetailed collar,
replaced by an upper collar, also halved, chamfered and slightly cambered, the
principal rafters chamfered. The roof over the lower end has 2 C18 trusses, probably
of 1727, halved and pegged, with collars.


Listing NGR: SX4337569885

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