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Carminowe Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.07 / 50°4'12"N

Longitude: -5.2642 / 5°15'51"W

OS Eastings: 166512

OS Northings: 23982

OS Grid: SW665239

Mapcode National: GBR Z2.DL8F

Mapcode Global: VH139.PHVP

Plus Code: 9C2P3PCP+28

Entry Name: Carminowe Farmhouse

Listing Date: 22 June 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1311325

English Heritage Legacy ID: 65282

ID on this website: 101311325

Location: Cornwall, TR12

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Mawgan-in-Meneage

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: St Mawgan-in-Meneage

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


SW 62 SE MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE

3/119 Carminowe Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse. Circa 1860. Shale rubble brought to course, dressed granite plinth,
quoins, sills, jambstones, lintels and porch. Mostly asbestos slate roofs with brick
chimneys with cornices over gable ends.
L-shaped plan incorporating integral rear service wing at right angles to rear,
right, plus single storey outhouse earth closet with hipped scantle slate roof at
rear left. Front range has parlour, left, and wider living room/parlour right,
passage between leading to stair hall and further passage within wing to left of
large internally and externally ventilated pantry and leading to back kitchen with
principal fireplace. Back door into this passage from rear courtyard.
Two storeys. Regular 4 window east front with entrance doorway under 2nd from left
1st floor window. Original 6-panel door within shallow dressed granite open fronted
porch with rectangular monolith columns on plinths surmounted by simple entablature.
Original 12-pane hornless sashes. The other elevations, like the front are unaltered
since built and retain their original windows and doors. There is a reused late
medieval trefoil-headed window in the gable end (west) of the service wing.
Interior retains all its original carpentry and joinery including 6-panel doors and
open-well open-string stick-baluster stair with mahogany handrail scrolled over
newel. Stone flagged floors to passages and service wing.
From the C13 Carminowe was an important manor and many medieval fragments from the
original house survive.
A remarkably complete and unaltered house linked to a fine contemporary planned group
of farm buildings.


Listing NGR: SW6651223982

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