Description

CALSTOCK METHERELL
SX 46 NW
4/245 Westmead
GV II
House. Mid C17, with additions probably of circa C18 and C20 alterations. Painted
stone rubble. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stack with
brick shaft to left, axial stack with rubble shaft and gable end stack with
weathering and shaped top to right.
Plan: 2-room plan, each room heated from a gable end stack, and with a lobby entrance
against the stack to right. No passage, and originally a stair to rear right. In
circa C18, an addition of one-room plan was added to the left end, heated from a
gable end stack, and probably at the same time, a straight stair was inserted at the
right side of this room. Lean-to to rear of the room to left, originally heated from
a stack to rear left. To the rear of the centre room, there was formerly a dairy,
now replaced by a C20 addition. Probably in the C19, the house was used as 2 houses,
with a doorway in the front of the room to end right ; this is now the main entrance
and the doorway to end right has been blocked.
Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 3-window front, all windows C20 20-pane sashes to
the two rooms to right, 3 at ground floor and 2 at first floor. The bay to left has
16-pane sash at ground and first floor and C20 porch to right. The original house to
right is at lower roof level. The left end has oven at at the base of the stack and
C20 window at ground floor to right. At the rear, C20 windows at first floor, and
single storey rubble lean-to to right with C20 windows. C20 single storey addition
to left.
Interior: The two original rooms have had the central partition wall removed, and are
now one room. There are chamfered beams with scroll stops. Fireplace at the right
gable end has a roughly hewn cambered timber lintel, which is a replacement ; the
jambs are in granite, chamfered with pyramid stops. Cloam oven to rear left, with
granite cill and clay door with handle, clay-lined oven. The other fireplaces are
rebuilt in C20. On the rear wall, in the original left-hand room, there is a
chamfered and stopped granite lintel, probably originally from a window. Roof not
accessible, the feet of the principal rafters are visible at first floor and are
chamfered.

Listing NGR: SX4085269430

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598125

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