Description

SW 72 SW ST MARTIN -IN-MENEAGE 4/221 Mudgeon Cottage -

II

Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Painted walls with dressed granite quoins and sills and shallow brick arches. Hipped asbestos slate roof with slightly projecting eaves sweeping lower over integral rear outshut, brick chimneys over side walls. Hipped asbestos slate roof over later wing left and scantle slate roof to adjoining outbuilding on right. Double depth plan 2 rooms wide with central through passage; the kitchen living room left and parlour right; dairy behind kitchen; stair hall at rear right of middle and pantry behind parlour. Extended later in the C19 by double depth wing, left, and outbuilding possibly shippon, right. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window south front plus later one window wing left and outbuilding slightly set back on right. There is an extra but original window opening to the ground floor between the left hand window and the nearly central doorway. 4-panel later glazed to top panels door with C20 porch. The windows are original hornless sashes each with border of marginal panes with diagonal corner bars surrounding 12 panes to middle. The rear is completely unaltered with original windows. The mid-floor stair window is like the front windows but taller. 12-pane sash beside doorway, otherwise 2 light small pane casements. The dairy window at ground floor right has horizontal glazing bars to left hand light and wooden shutter to right hand light. Interior not inspected. This is very similar in design to Boskenna qv. St Martin, and has the same sort of sash windows and the extra window left of the doorway.

Listing NGR: SW7391724722

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