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Carnhell Farmhouse Adjoining Engine House, Barn, Front Garden Walls and Gate Piers

A Grade II Listed Building in Reawla, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.188 / 50°11'16"N

Longitude: -5.3371 / 5°20'13"W

OS Eastings: 161886

OS Northings: 37332

OS Grid: SW618373

Mapcode National: GBR FX65.VFF

Mapcode Global: VH12P.FJVQ

Plus Code: 9C2P5MQ7+65

Entry Name: Carnhell Farmhouse Adjoining Engine House, Barn, Front Garden Walls and Gate Piers

Listing Date: 14 January 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1143732

English Heritage Legacy ID: 70113

ID on this website: 101143732

Location: Carnhell Green, Cornwall, TR14

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Gwinear-Gwithian

Built-Up Area: Reawla

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Gwinear

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


GWINEAR-GWITHIAN CATHEBEDRON ROAD, Carnhell Green
SW 63 NW
5/17 Carnhell Farmhouse, adjoining
- engine house, barn, front garden
walls and gate-piers

GV II
Farmhouse, adjoining horse-engine house, barn, front garden walls and gate-piers. C17
on C14 or earlier site, remodelled in the C18 and circa early C19, former home of the
Carnhell family including Sir Edward Carnhell. Granite rubble with granite dressings.
Grouted scantle slate roofs, hipped or half-hipped. Brick chimneys at the hipped
ends. Cast-iron ogee gutters.
Plan: L-shaped house with 2 large rooms in the long main range with stair hall
between and a 1-room plan parlour wing with another entrance lobby and stair hall
between the 2 ranges. The right-hand room of the main range is the kitchen and was
probably always the hall/kitchen and there is a C19 parallel service range behind. In
front of the parlour is a horse-engine house which once operated a mill and adjoining
on its right is a barn with granary over a shippon.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Slightly irregular 3 window south front of main range with
parlour wing at right angles in front on the right with its 2-window front-facing
left. The main doorway has circa early C20 door, the doorway of the parlour wing is
blocked. The windows are circa early C20 6-pane horned sashes in C18 or C19 openings.
Blocked in at rear of the stair is said to be the chamfered outer frame of a
mullioned window. Engine house has large doorway at the front and small window at
rear left. Barn has symmetrical front with central doorway with loading/winnowing
doorway over small ventilator slits for shippon, first floor window blocked. C20
steps at rear.
Interior: circa 1800 dog-leg stair and some panelling in the entrance lobby of
similar date or possibly C18, otherwise circa early C19 carpentry and joinery. Very
large, partly blocked fireplace in kitchen.
Granite coped rubble walls parallel to front of house with quadrant-on-plan returns
to gateway with granite monolithic piers.


Listing NGR: SW6188637332

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