Description

CUBERT
SW 75 NE
2/1 Carevick Farmhouse
- II

Farmhouse, now house. Circa mid - late C17; extended circa mid C19, with alterations
and additions of later C19 and C20. The original house is in painted stone rubble
and cob, partly rendered and partly in brick. Thatched roof with half-hipped ends.
End stacks with brick shafts. The C19 addition is in painted stone rubble. Slate
roof with ridge tiles, hipped end to left and with gable end to right, with axial
stack with rendered shaft.
Plan: Overall L-plan. The original plan is not clear; what remains of the first
building is a 3-room plan range to right, under a thatched roof; the outer rooms are
heated from end stacks and the central room appears never to have been heated. There
is a one-room plan wing on the same axis as the C19 building, and incorporated under
the C19 slate roof; this room is heated from a rear lateral stack and appears to
have been a hall/kitchen. The unheated room and the end room in the thatched range
may represent a later C17 or C18 addition to the original house, part of which would
have been demolished when the C19 addition was made at the left end. The C19
addition contains a stair hall and entrance hall, with 2 rooms to left, heated from a
back-to-back fireplaces from the axial stack. There is an outshut behind the central
room in the C17 range, and a C20 addition at the rear of the C19 building.
Exterior: The C17 range is 2-storey, an asymmetrical 4-window front. First floor has
four C19 16-pane sashes with segmental arches. The ground floor has C20 glazed door
to left and two similar 16-pane sashes with segmental arches. The right end is
rendered with a C20 4-pane window at first floor to right. The C19 range to left is
2-storey, an asymmetrical 4-window front. First floor has four C19 16-pane sashes
with segmental arches and keystones. Ground floor has two 16-pane sash. The left
end has C20 glazed door with external stone steps. At the rear of the C17 range,
there are two C20 windows at ground floor to right and two 2-light C20 casements in
eyebrow dormers. C20 door to left. There is a 20-pane window lighting the stair and
the pitch of the thatched roof is extended over the stair and the outshut. To left,
the outshut is single storey, with C20 window and door and C20 window at the right
side. The rear of the C19 range has three C20 replacement 16-pane sashes with
keystones at first floor. To left there is a large 24-pane window with cambered arch
and keystone lighting the C19 stair hall. At ground floor to right there is a single
storey C20 addition with hipped roof and French windows. To left there is a large
external stack serving the rear lateral fireplace in the C17 hall/kitchen, with
stepped top.
Interior: Not fully inspected. The C19 stair hall has open-well stair with stick
balusters. There is a solid masonry wall between the stair hall and the C17 room to
right. In the hall/kitchen, the rear lateral fireplace has re-set chamfered timber
lintel, and 2 cloam ovens, one to each side.

Listing NGR: SW7975758774

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614015

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