Description

SW 53 SE CROWAN

3/199 Low Noonvares Farmhouse, including
- front garden walls

GV II

Farmhouse and front garden walls. Small portion of circa early C17 house retained as
service wing to a circa mid C19 house. Killas rubble walls with dressed granite
quoins, jambstone and lintels, the older part painted rubble incorporating a circa
early C17 moulded granite doorway probably resited. Scantle slate roofs with brick
chimneys over the gable ends; stump of external rubble stack at left of older part,
surmounted by tall brick shaft rising just above verge. Cast iron ogee gutters.
Plan: double depth C19 house with front room on either side of central cross passage
leading to stair behind right hand room shallow service room behind left hand room.
At the left hand side, set back from the front and projecting further at the rear is
a 1 room plan 2 storey vestige of an older house. Small C20 addition at rear rights
2 storeys. Symmetrical 2 window C19 front with central doorway plus 1 window older
front set back on the left. The C19 front has C20 door with overlight and original
16-pane hornless sashes. The first floor windows are closer spaced. The older part
has resited circa early C17 doorway, right and small 6 pane casement adjoining the
left hand jamb. Midway over is a circa early C19 12-pane hornless sash. The doorway
has cavetto and ovolo moulding and step and tongue stops.
Interior stone flag floor in the older part; the C19 part virtually complete and
unaltered since built.
The garden wall is grouted rubble, and aligned with the C19 front door is a gateway
with round-headed granite monolith jambs and a wrought iron gate.
A curious reuse of part of an older house. The quality of the C17 doorway suggests a
former building of some importance and the present mixture of C17 and C19 is very
attractive.

Listing NGR: SW5997032614

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613720

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)