Description

ST GORAN
SX 04 SW
3/72 Lower Penare
-
II

Farmhouse, now house. Circa C17, with addition of later C17; alterations of late C19
and C20. Slatestone rubble, the main front rendered. Slate roof with ridge tiles and
gable ends. Gable end stack to left with brick shaft and gable end stack to right
with rubble shaft. At the left end of the addition is a gable end stack with rubble
shaft and shaped top.
Plan: 2-room and cross passage plan; each room heated from a gable end stack. Circa
late C17, an addition of one-room plan was made at the left end, heated from a gable
end stack to left. To rear left there is an unheated outshut, probably of C19, and
at the right end there are two outshuts, the front one of single storey and the rear
one of single storey with loft, projecting to rear right as a rear wing and heated
from a gable end stack.
Exterior: 2 storeys, an asymmetrical 2-window front. Central C20 gabled porch with
C20 inner door. Ground and first floor to left and right have late C19 4-pane sash.
To left is the lower 2-storey addition, with C20 2-light 6-pane casement at ground
and first floors to left and C20 plank door to right. To right, there is a single
storey lean-to built around the external stack, a C20 single light window with timber
lintel at the front. The right end is rendered and roughcast, blind. The left end
has large stepped external stack. The rear is rendered. The rear wing to left has
C19 2-light 3-pane casement at ground and first floors on the inner side. There is a
C20 addition at the rear of the passage and at first floor a C20 window lighting the
stair. To right there is a single storey outshut with two 2-light C20 casements and
C20 door at the left end.
Interior: The entrance passage has roughly hewn and chamfered ceiling beam to right;
there is a straight stair inserted in the passage with a panelled screen partition at
first floor, probably of C18. The rest of the house was not accessible.

Listing NGR: SW9998440403

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612490

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)