Description

SW 73 SW CONSTANTINE

5/58 Tresahor Veor including front
- garden area wall, railings gate-
piers and outbuilding adjoining
south west

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa mid C19, enlarged and altered slightly later in the C19. Granite
rubble with dressed granite quoins, lintels and cills. Grouted scantle slate roof
with gabled ends and red clay crested ridge tiles. Gable end stacks with red brick
shafts. Ogee-moulded cast-iron gutters.
Plan: Single depth 2-room plan front range, each room heated from a gable end stack
and with a central stairhall between the 2 rooms. There is a large 1-room plan rear
wing behind the right hand end with a kitchen fireplace in its gable end; this room
is now a scullery and dairy. Slightly later in the C19 a narrow rear wing was built
in the angle to the left of and parallel with the original rear wing; this seems to
have been a back parlour. The passage at the back of the right hand room of the
front range is proabably also a later C19 alteration to provide access to the right
side of the house which now contains the service rooms. The barn (farm building S.S.
W.qv) is dated 1858 which may be when the house was enlarged and rearranged.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south east front. C19 6-pane sashes with
vertical glazing bars only, granite lintels and granite cills. Central doorway has a
C19 glazed end panelled door and a canopy with a hipped slate roof, scalloped
valance and pendants supported on timber brackets and moulded granite corbels.
Pair of adjoining gable-ended wings at rear, the earlier left hand wing has a C19 2-
light casement on the ground floor, a brick stack over the gable and a semi-circular
plan coal-house or ash-house in the left hand angle. The right hand wing has C19 2-
light casement and door on the gable end and 2 C19 16-pane sashes on the first floor
of the right side and a C19 6-pane sash below.
Including the garden area wall and railings in front of the house; granite rubble
with rock-faced granite coping stones and iron railings above with fleur-de-lis
finials; small granite monolithic gate-piers with pyramidal caps and C20 gates.
Interior: The interior has been virtually unaltered since C19. The front left hand
room has a deeply moulded cornice and a C20 tiled chimney-piece. The front right
hand room is the kitchen now and has exposed bead-moulded joists and a plank
partition to the passage behind. C19 dog-leg staircase with a closed string and
turned newels and balusters. The back parlour has a C19 wooden chimney-piece across
the corner with a bracketted shelf. The dairy has an open fireplace, plastered over,
a boarded meat-larder in one corner with a wooden dowel grille and a meat-safe in the
adjacent corner.
The interior is complete with all its C19 joinery including panelled and plank doors.
Including a single storey shippon range adjoining left (west); granite rabble with
granite dressings, scantle slate roof with gabled ends, partly replaced with
corrugated iron; the left hand end is set back slightly; 4 small square windows
openings on the front and 3 shippon doorways, one with reused hollow-chamfered
granite lintel, 3 ventilation slits in the left hand gable end.

Listing NGR: SW7426530545

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26597694

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)