Description

SW 63 SE SITHNEY

5/251 Lower Boscadjack Farmhouse and
- front garden walls

GV II

Farmhouse and front garden walls. Circa mid C19. Faced granite brought to course to
front otherwise painted rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills and
lintels. Heavily-grouted scantle slate roof with 2-stage brick chimneys over the
gable ends. Cast-iron ogee gutters.
Plan : double-depth plan: originally 2 equal front rooms with cross passage leading
to central stair at the rear between 2 service rooms, pantry left and back kitchen
right. The left hand rooms are now made into 1 room. First floor: 2 heated chambers
at the front with box room between and 2 unheated chambers at the rear. C20 bathroom
behind stair.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window front with central doorway, the window over the
doorway narrower ie. the same width as the doorway. C20 door, original 12-pane
hornless sash over the door, otherwise original 16-pane hornless sashes.
Interior most original C19 carpentry and joinery survives including the stairs, most
doors, most partitions floors and the roof structure.
The painted rubble garden walls enclose a shallow rectangular area at the front of
the house, separating it from the farmyard. Central gateway with dressed granite
monolithic gate piers.

Listing NGR: SW6730331116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613740

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas