Description

SW 73 SE & SW 72 NE CONSTANTINE

6 & 9/10 Bosvathick Farmhouse including
- back yard walls and gates

GV II

Farmhouse on the estate of Bosvathick house qv. Late C19, said to be circa 1880.
Coursed and dressed granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, lintels and cills.
Scantle slate hipped roof in 2 spans at the back; red clay ridge tiles and deep
eaves. Over each side wall 2 painted red brick stacks with chamfered corners, brick
cogged cornices and clay turned pots.
Plan: Triple depth square plan. 2 principal front rooms with a central entrance
passage between leading to the stair well behind the right hand room. Behind the
deeper left hand room there is a small unheated room of uncertain purpose. At the
back there are 2 large service rooms, the dairy to the right is deeper than the
kitchen to the left. There is a central back doorway giving direct entry into the
kitchen.
Exterior: 2-storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south front. Original late C19 4-pane
sashes in openings with plain granite lintels, cills and quoins to the jambs. The
central doorway opening is similar and has a shallow rectangular overlight and a
panelled door with board applied over it later.
The left hand elevation has one central window on each floor, sashes with slate
cills.
The right hand side has a very tall stair window at the centre with a red brick round
arch with a keystone and a sash with coloured glass margin panes; to the right on the
ground floor a large 2-light casement to the dairy, with glazing bars.
The rear elevation is symmetrical, 3-windows wide, late C19 16-pane sashes, the
centre first floor window has 12 panes, the ground floor left a large 2-light
casement to the dairy with glazing bars; all with granite lintels and slate cills.
At the centre a small hipped slate roof porch built of brick which may be a later
addition but has the original back door behind.
The back yard has a contemporary granite rubble wall with granite coping, monolithic
granite gate-posts with pointed heads. The wrought-iron gate to the back yard, and
another leading to the farm yard have cross-bracing. The back gate to the garden has
fluted cast iron posts and fleur-de-lis finials.
Interior: The interior is remarkably unaltered and all the internal joinery is
intact including panelled doors. The front right hand room has a black marble
chimney-piece. The front left hand room is unusual in having exposed ceiling joists,
contemporary simple chimney-piece and panelled cupboards. The dog-leg open-string
staircase has turned balusters and newels. The kitchen and dairy both have slate
floors. The kitchen has exposed ceiling joists and a large fireplace with a
bracketted shelf. The dairy has a plastered ceiling and original slate slabs
including one at the centre of the room. The first floor was not inspected but is
said to be also intact with original chimney-pieces and doors etc.
Part of a remarkably complete and unaltered late C19 farmstead built on the small
Bosvathick estate.

Listing NGR: SW7508230006

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613731

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings