Description

SW 62 SE GUNWALLOE CHYVARLOE

3/42 Dales Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse and garden walls to front. Circa late C18/early C19. Shale rubble walls
with dressed granite sills and lintels. Scantle slate roof with brick chimneys over
gable ends and cast iron ogee gutters.
Plan 2 rooms wide with kitchen/living-room left and narrower and shallower parlour on
right with shallow pantry behind. Stair against rear wall of kitchen and back
kitchen dairy in probably later outshut behind. Large hearth in kitchen, smaller
hearth in parlour and further hearth (blocked) in dairy.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window roughly east front with central doorway with top-
glazed ledged door. Original 12-pane 2-light horizontal sliding sashes. Further
original window to pantry in right-hand gable end: 2-light with horizontal wooden
glazing bars and random width leaded panes between.
Interior is virtually complete and unaltered since the C19: original 4 panel and 2
panels doors with old hinges and fittings including cupboard doors beside parlour
hearth and to right of kitchen hearth.
Painted rubble garden wall with round coping terminating at central gateway with
round-headed dressed granite gate-piers.
The most complete example of a group of 4 farmhouses in this hamlet and particularly
notable for its original fenestration including the leaded window of which a number
of other examples survive in the Lizard area.

Listing NGR: SW6531823429

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613903

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version