farmyard complex — Moonveen

Farmyard complex, c.1800, including: (i) Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse with dormer attic with entrance windbreak, and three-bay single-storey rear (north-west) elevation. Hipped roof (continuing over windbreak) with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and rendered chimney stack. Unpainted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction possibly having sections of mud wall construction incorporating slight batter. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, rendered surrounds, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with step, and timber boarded door. Set back from line of road in own grounds with rear (north-west) elevation fronting on to road. (ii) Detached three-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding perpendicular to south with square-headed carriageway to left, and two-bay single-storey rear (south-west) elevation. Pitched and hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge. Painted (limewashed) random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors. Square-headed carriageway to left with timber lintel, and no fittings. (iii) Detached two-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding perpendicular to south. Pitched and hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge. Painted (limewashed) random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and timber boarded doors having one timber boarded half-door.