Description

CALSTOCK LOWER CALSTOCK ROAD, Gunnislake SX 47 SW 2/121 Whimple Farmhouse 17.3.86 II Farmhouse. Circa early C17, with alterations and addition dated 1670 ; additions of the mid and later C19 and C20 alterations. Slatestone rubble, rendered and painted, with granite dressings. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends ; gable end stacks, with brick shaft to left and rendered shaft to right, rear lateral stack in rubble. Plan: 3-room and through passage plan, with the lower end room to right, hall and inner room to left. The lower end room is heated from a gable end stack. The hall is heated from a rear lateral stack and the inner room from a gable end stack. There is a stair tower to the rear of the hall, and a stair tower to the rear of the lower end room, the latter probably an addition of the later C17. In 1670, the porch was added to the front of the passage, probably originally gabled and with a full upper chamber ; there is a truncated hood mould to the window at ground floor to right, showing that the porch was added after the first build. Probably at about the same time, a small addition of 2 storeys and one-room plan was added to the rear of the inner room, unheated and possibly originally used as a dairy with loft over. Slightly later, a small barn was added to the rear of the dairy, built into the bank at the outer side. Probably in the mid C19, a second barn was added to the rear of the dairy range with a cart shed at the end, enclosing the left side of the rear yard. About the same time, a small 2-storey barn was added to the right side of the lower room. Probably later in the C19 a 2-storey lean-to was added to the rear, between the 2 stair towers and enclosing the rear lateral stack to the hall and the rear doorway to the passage. A further single storey lean-to was added to the rear of this. Probably in mid C20, the partition wall was removed between the hall and the inner room ; each side of the passage has a C19 panelled screen. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical 4-window front. The porch has a pitched roof, with single light to right and left at upper level ; ground floor has chamfered granite lancet to right ; the front doorway is in granite, with 4-centred arch, roll-moulded with scroll-carved flat stops and hood mould, datestone over ; C19 door with battens and strap hinges. The upper end to left has two 3-light C20 casements at ground and first floor with central C20 window at first floor. The lower end to right has a 4- light chamfered granite window at ground floor, with king mullion remaining, stoolings for other mullions and C20 casements, truncated hood mould. C20 2-light casement to right. First floor has similar 3-light chamfered granite window with stoolings for mullions and C20 casements, and hood mould. Attached to right is a lower 2-storey barn with C20 2-light casement at ground and first floor. The right end has a half-hipped roof to the barn. At the left end is an external stack ; built into the bank. The dairy addition has a ground floor 2-light casement and first floor 2-light casement with granite cill. The first barn is built into the bank, with a door and a small single light in chamfered granite surround. At the end of the dairy range is the later C19 barn and cart shed ; the inner side of the barn has half-hipped roof, with external steps to door with flat stone arch. Attached to the end of the barn an open-fronted cart shed, of 3 bays, with plain granite piers supporting the roof and a gable end. The rear of this barn has double doors with timber lintel, and 2 ventilation slits at upper ground level. The gable end of the barn is at the outer side, with double doors. At the inner side, the dairy range has single unglazed window in chamfered granite surround, and 2-light casement at first floor. The inner side of the early barn has a chamfered ventilation slit and door, with 2-light window above. There is a joint visible between the dairy and the inner room. The barn and the dairy have a continous C18 roof. The rear of the main house has at the lower end a chamfered granite 2-light window, only jambs and cill remaining, with C20 casements. The lower end stair tower has pitched roof, with 2- light chamfered granite window at ground floor with dripstone ; single light at first floor. Of the hall stair tower, only a 2-light casement at first floor is visible, and a door at ground floor. Between the towers, a 2-storey lean-to, with a further C20 single storey lean-to with door and 2 windows. The rear of the barn attached to the lower end has 2 C20 doors and C20 casement at ground and first floor. Interior: The hall and the inner room are now one room, with roughly hewn ceiling beams. The gable end fireplace has moulded granite jambs and lintel, re-positioned, with a timber lintel above ; the granite lintel has vestigial ogee, with roundel. Stone floor. The rear lateral fireplace to the hall is rebuilt in C20. The stair tower to the rear of the hall has a C19 dog-leg stair. In the through passage, there is a panelled C19 screen to each side. The front doorway has flat granite lintel, chamfered with pyramid stops to jambs. Stone floor. The lower end room has blocked gable end fireplace and C19 ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: SX4374170261

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