Description

ST CLEER SX 26 NE 11/65 Newton Farmhouse, with attached - wall, gateway and cart shed II

Farmhouse, with attached wall, gateway and cart shed. Probably late C17 - early C17 origin; gateway dated 1665; addition of circa C18, and alterations of C19 and C20. Slatestone and granite rubble, with granite dressings; partly rendered. Roof has front slope in asbestos slate, rear slope in slate, with ridge tiles and gable ends; gable end stacks, to left in granite ashlar with cornice, with right with rubble shaft. Plan: 2-room plan, with wide central cross passage. Smaller room at higher level to right, heated by gable end stack, probably parlour; larger room to left, a half/kitchen, also heated by gable end stack. Stair tower to rear of passage, which may be of the original build. To the rear right, there is an integral outshut of single storey, unheated, used as a dairy. Probably in circa 1665; a 2-storey wing of 2-room plan was added to the front of the lower end to left; this does not appear to have been heated. The wing encloses a front courtyard, which is enclosed along the front by a rubble, wall granite gateway dated 1665 set in the centre. Probably in the late C18 or early C19, an open-fronted cart shed was attached to the front left of the wall. Probably circa C19, a rear wing of 2 storeys was added to the rear left, as a kitchen; this has 2 gable ends, and is heated by a gable end stack. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical. 3-window front. The passage doorway has a plain chamfered granite surround, half-glazed door with plain granite lintel and end with plain lintel; to left a 2-light casement with plain granite lintel and end left 3- light granite casement, chamfered, with 2-pane lights. First floor has two 2-light granite casements to left and centre, of 8-panes each with L hinges; 2-light 8-pane wooden casement with L hinges to right. Attached to front left, the lower 2-storeys wing, with two 2-light chamfered granite casements at first floor, one to left blocked, one to right with stooling for mullion only. Ground floor has plain granite lintel remaining over blocked door. At the left side, the front wing has 2 doors and one loading door at upper level. Gable end of the main range has granite string course. The right side has external weathered stack. There is a loft over the dairy outshut, with small 4-pane light. At the rear, the dairy has 4-light granite casement, with mullions removed, chamfered, with smaller C20 casement inserted; over the dairy, the roof forms a catslide with the main range. Dairy has door and C20 3- light casement. Small single storey C20 addition to rear of dairy. The rear kitchen wing has 2 gable ends, with external stack to the gable end to left, with oven at base of stack. Ground and first floor right C20 window, first floor to left has C20 window. The rear gable ends are rendered; they enclose the rear stair tower. Interior: The room to front left, the hall/kitchen, lies slate floor and end fireplace with roughly hewn granite jambs and flat chamfered lintel. Roughly chamfered cross beams with no stops. The window is hollow-chamfered on the inside. The stair tower to the rear of the passage has a C19 dog-leg stair. At first floor the feet of the principal rafters are visible; these are roughly hewn, without chamfers, 9 bays in the main range. Wall, gateway and cart shed The wall and gateway extend from the front of the front wing across the whole length of the house; slatestone rubble wall, about 1½ metres high. Set in the wall, opposite the front door of the house, a granite gateway, with 3-centred arch, chamfered and stopped, with recessed spandrels with raised carved hearts and date 1665, with square hood mould over. To front left of the wall, attached open-fronted cart shed, with 4-bay front, roughly hewn granite monolith piers along the front; slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends.

Listing NGR: SX2747068609

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