Description

SW 73 SE CONSTANTINE

6/29 Lower Bosvarren Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse. Circa early to mid C17, extended in circa early and mid C19. Granite
rubble with granite dressings. Slurried scantle slate roofs with gabled ends and red
clay ridge tiles. The front range has dressed granite gable end stacks with
dripcourses.
Plan: The circa early to mid C17 house is the 2 room and through passage plan front
range. Both rooms are heated from gable end stacks, the right hand room is the
larger but the partition on the lower left side of the passage has been removed
making the 2 rooms about equal size. In circa early C19 a shallow unheated parallel
range was added at the back which at the right end was incorporated into the rear
wing added in circa mid C19. The rear wing comprises a room over an outbuilding and
extends into the integral range of farm buildings qv at the back.
Exterior: 2-storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window range. C19 2-light horizontally sliding
sashes with glazing bars except for the first floor right which has a later C19 4-
pane sash. The first floor windows have granite lintels and C17 chamfered granite
cills, the right hand with stoolings for mullions. The 2 ground floor windows have
their C17 chamfered granite frames, the right hand with stoolings for 2 mullions, the
left hand window's lintel has been replaced with an unchamfered lintel. Doorway to
left of centre has a C17 chamfered granite 3-centred arch frame with long pyramid
stops and a late C19 glazed and panelled door. The right hand elevation, the outer
side of the rear wing has a circa mid C19 12-pane sash on the first floor and a late
C19 2-light casement below. To the right the wall at the end of the rear wing
projects.
The rear elevation has late C19 2-light casements and the inner face of the rear wing
has a late C19 12-pane sash on the first floor above a wide doorway on the ground
floor with a long granite lintel.
Interior: Both front rooms in the main range have their fireplaces blocked by C20
fireplaces and the floors above are supported on exposed soft wood joists.
Bosvarren was in the small manor of Treworval.
Source: Charles Henderson. A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall.
pages 169 to 171

Listing NGR: SW7569230014

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613751

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