Description

WARLEGGAN
SX 16 NE
9/148 Wooda and attached front garden
- wall
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1804, with few later alterations. Slatestone and
granite rubble with stone dressings, partly slate-hung. Hipped slate roof with ridge
tiles and end stacks with brick shafts; rear outshut has slate roof with stack to
right side with brick shaft.
Plan: 2-room plan, with central entrance leading to passage, with the stair hall to
rear centre in the outshut; principal room to front right and left, each heated by
end stack. To the rear there is an integral service outshut, with kitchen to rear
right heated by stack to right side and unheated dairy to rear left. There is a
covered way leading from the back kitchen to a detached kitchen/bakehouse, which is
heated by a stack to side.
Exterior: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window front; slate-hung above ground floor sill
level. First floor has central 16-pane sash, 12-pane sash with sidelights to right
and left, all with cambered stone heads with keystones. Ground floor has central
hipped hood with dentil cornice, supported on wooden piers, with inner half-glazed
door with margin glazing. To right, similar 12-pane sash with sidelights, similar
window to left which has had the sill level lowered for a 15-pane sash with
sidelights. Right side has 6-pane light at first floor to right. The rear kitchen
has 4-pane sash. The left side is blind, with the datestone : 18M04/KM. Dairy has
2-light casement at ground floor. At the rear the 2-storey integral outshut forms a
catslide roof with the main range. The kitchen has a 24-pane sash and door with flat
stone arch, 15-pane sash above. 12-pane sash lighting the stair. The dairy has two
2-light casements, one of 6 panes with L hinges, the other unglazed; first floor has
small gabled dormer and raking dormer, each with 2-light casement.
Interior: Front rooms at ground floor have chimneypieces and panelled shutters to
windows. Dog-leg stair in stair well. Kitchen has slate floor, fireplace with
recess to right, possibly for oven. Dairy has slate shelves, granite slating trough
with wooden lid and door with sliding vents; partitioned in C20. Kitchen and dairy
have roughly hewn chamfered beams, one with IIIX scratch-carved, possibly re-used.
Attached to rear by the covered way, the detached kitchen/bakehouse is square in
plan, with C20 pyramidal slate roof and truncated stack to right side. Front has
door and window. Interior has slate floor and fireplace with heavy cambered timber
lintel, cloam oven to left. Slate cill to window.
Attached to front is the garden wall, enclosing a roughly triangular plan area. The
wall is in rubble with slate coping. To left, about 2 metres high and about 10
metres long. Along the front, the wall is about one metre high and is swept in to
the gateway to right; surmounted by plain wooden palings with piers at intervals, top
and base rail. The gateway has plain granite piers and wooden railing gate.

Listing NGR: SX1535568988

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453751

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