Description

SW 63 SE SITHNEY

5/251 Lower Boscadjack Farmhouse and - front garden walls

GV II

Farmhouse and front garden walls. Circa mid C19. Faced granite brought to course to front otherwise painted rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills and lintels. Heavily-grouted scantle slate roof with 2-stage brick chimneys over the gable ends. Cast-iron ogee gutters. Plan : double-depth plan: originally 2 equal front rooms with cross passage leading to central stair at the rear between 2 service rooms, pantry left and back kitchen right. The left hand rooms are now made into 1 room. First floor: 2 heated chambers at the front with box room between and 2 unheated chambers at the rear. C20 bathroom behind stair. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window front with central doorway, the window over the doorway narrower ie. the same width as the doorway. C20 door, original 12-pane hornless sash over the door, otherwise original 16-pane hornless sashes. Interior most original C19 carpentry and joinery survives including the stairs, most doors, most partitions floors and the roof structure. The painted rubble garden walls enclose a shallow rectangular area at the front of the house, separating it from the farmyard. Central gateway with dressed granite monolithic gate piers.

Listing NGR: SW6730331116

External Links

• Wikidata Q26613740

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