Description

ST MERRYN
SW 87 SE
3/251 Carnevas Farmhouse and garden walls
to south

GV II

Farmhouse and garden walls to front. Circa late C18 or early C19. Stone rubble.
Slate roof with hipped ends. Brick axial stacks.
Plan: Double depth plan with entrance to right of centre. 3 principal rooms across
front, heated by fireplaces on the rear walls. Kitchen to rear of left hand room,
dairy to rear of central room and stair to rear of right hand room.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Imposing 4 window regular front elevation with original sashes
and dressed stone segmental arches to openings. Entrance to right of centre with C19
door and circa 1840s glazed timber porch with 2 centred arched openings to the
windows and a flat roof. Hornless 12-pane C19 sashes on ground floor with 2 sashes
to left and one to right. First floor with four 12-pane sashes, the second sash
replaced in circa late C19 or C20.
Interior: Complete original joinery and carpentry details. 2 principal rooms on
front left have original moulded plaster cornices although the partition between the
2 rooms has been removed. Original moulded plasterwork and chimney-piece to right
hand room. Stair with wrought iron balustrade lit by a stair window with original
painted glass depicting a farmyard scene. Kitchen to rear left has C19 joinery
including bench attached to wall. Meat hooks in kitchen and in small cupboard
outside back door, presumably for poultry.
Including C19 stone rubble walls enclosing garden to front (south) of the house.
This house is an unusual survival of such a complete circa 1800 farmhouse and
commands a prominent position in the landscape.

Listing NGR: SW8622172770

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507682

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)