Description

TREMAINE SX 29 SW 3/170 Minnimeer Farmhouse and adjoining - carriage house

GV II

House and adjoining carriage house. Circa mid C17 extended with carriage house in mid C19. Stone rubble and cob. Slate roof with gable ends. Rendered end stacks; the higher right hand stack is well constructed of roughly dressed stone with slate galetting and appears to have been inserted in the cob end wall. Plan: Two room and through passage plan heated by end stacks. Hall-kitchen on higher right hand side and smaller, probably parlour on left. Stone rubble cross wall on higher right hand side of passage continues almost to eaves level. Through passage blocked to rear by a circa C19 dog-leg stair. Circa C18 outshut added to rear of lower end and passage and carriage house added on higher right hand gable end in circa mid C19. Exterior: Two storeys. Ground slopes down steeply to the left and the house is built down the slope with the C19 carriage house on the higher, right hand side. Regular 3 window front with early C19 door flanked by C19 3-light casement with HL hinges to left and 2-light casement to right. First floor with probably C19 2-light casements to left and centre and renewed 1-light casement to right. Stone rubble probably C19 buttress to left and C20 buttresses near centre and to right. Carriage house set slightly back to right; of two storeys with wide brick segmental arched opening on ground floor. Interior: Roughly chamfered floor joists to passage and left hand room and boarded ceiling in right hand room. The fireplace in the right-hand hall kitchen has a large chamfered granite lintel to the fireplace, and the opening to the fireplace has been reduced slightly in size probably in the C18 or C19 by the insertion of stone rubble and granite jambs. Cloam oven. Roof structure probably renewed in C18 with roughly cut principals with lapped and pegged collars.

Listing NGR: SX2310190577

External Links

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