Description

SW 72 NE MAWNAN

9/169 Bosveal Farm Cottage
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II

Farm workers cottage, including garden walls and gate-pier at road and entrance
fronts. Datestones 1929 and initials P.D. Killas rubble walls. Delabole slate roof
laid in diminishing courses and with sprocketted eaves. Large central rubble axial
stack.
Plan: Unaltered rectangular plan with 3 rooms along the garden front: parlour on
the left with small room behind; scullery in the middle with entrance and stair hall
behind, full depth kitchen/living room on the right and pantry in single storey wing
set back clasping rear right-hand corner.
Exterior: 2 storeys with bedrooms mostly within roof space and lit by gable end
windows and dressed granite dormers at front and rear. Symmetrical 3 window south
garden front with square central window opening and taller flanking window openings
Flush granite sills and slate voussoirs to cambered arches. Original horned sashes
with glazing bars. Central lead-roofed dated dormer is segmentally headed, and has
coping with ball finial (similar dormer at rear to light stair). Left-hand gable end
(facing road) is symmetrical and has integral battered buttresses with dressed
granite weatherings at either side of the ground floor. 2 ground floor windows and
one window central to gable. The openings have deeply set reveals and the flush
granite sills have rounded corners. Other elevations also complete and unaltered.
Central rear doorway has original oak door.
Interior: Simple interior with most of its original features including oak doors.

Listing NGR: SW7754227814

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455053

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)