Description

LANEAST SX 28 NW 2/144 Torr Park Farmhouse with attached - front garden wall and outhouse with shippon

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Farmhouse, with attached front garden wall and outhouse with shippon. Circa early C19; some alterations and additions of later C19 and few later alterations. Slatestone rubble with stone dressings; partly slate-hung. 2-span rag slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. The front range has gable end stacks with slate weathering. No stacks to the rear range. Plan: Double depth plan with central entrance and principal room to right and left at the front, one room originally a kitchen and the other a parlour. Shallower rear unheated service rooms. Attached to rear left is a single storey outhouse of C19 and a shippon addition of C19 at the left. The attached wall encloses a small garden at the front of the house. Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front. Ground floor has central porch with hipped roof, plank door at the left side and small single C20 casement at the front. All windows are of early C20 in original apertures. Ground floor has 2-light 2-pane casement to left and 2-light single pane casement to right, with cambered stone arches. First floor has three 2-light 2-pane casements. The right end is blind, slate-hung with rag slates. The left end has the shippon addition of single storey with loft over; the gable end is open, with a central granite pier, the bay to left and the upper part of the gable weather boarded, with a central plank door in the gable; asbestos slate roof. At the rear, at ground and first floor to left one 2-light 2-pane casement, ground and first floor to right a 2-light single pane casement, all of early C20; the ground floor openings have flat stone arches. Central plank door with glazed panel, cambered stone arch and pitched slate hood. There is a single unheated outhouse attached to right with C20 2-light single pane casement and stable type plank door; hipped end roof. The front garden wall is in slatestone rubble with quartz rubble capping. There are plain piers at the left side with a C20 wooden gate. The wall encloses a garden about 15 metres wide and about 3 metres deep. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX2313386423

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