Church Cottage and Wynwallow Cottage, and Church Town Farmhouse England, UK

Listed Building Description

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LANDEWEDNACK CHURCH COVE SW 71 SW 9/67 Church Cottage and Wynwallow Cottage, and Church Town Farmhouse (formerly listed as the 10 7 57 Laurels and Churchtown Farm Cottage) GV II Farmhouse now 2 dwellings. C17. Whitewashed stone base with upper walls of whitewashed stone and plastered cob. Stone east gable end. Timber lintels and slate sills. Thatched roof. Large stone chimney stack on east gable end and brick chimney on ridge right-hand of centre. 3 unit with cross passage and projecting staircase bay on front. Later extensions on rear and single storey extensions on east, previously with steeply pitched roof, now low pitched. 1½ storeys, 2 horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars flank C19 partly glazed entrance door. Staircase projection to right (west) with small window. On right of projection, small horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars to left of second entrance door. On first floor 5 horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars, directly below eaves. Left-hand fireplace (east) partly blocked with Cornish range, only end of cut timber lintel. Visible within fringle (smoking chamber). Proportion of first floor joists have been replaced. Collar rafter roof pegged at apex. Attached to rear of building, dwelling now hen house. Possibly pre-1700 stone base with unplastered cob walls and slate roof. 2 storey with window opening on ground floor enlarged to form entrance. First floor joists and roof timbers replaced. Attached on right-hand side of Wynwallow Cottage (to west) Church Town Farmhouse, mid-C19 of 2 storeys, symmetrical, rendered with slate roof and rendered chimneys on gable ends. 2 sash windows (12 pane) on ground floor with central round-headed entrance. 3 sash windows (12 pane) above. Wing at right angles to rear extending southwards, C18. Whitewashed stone base with upper cob walls. Asymmetrical with later extension on front and altered windows on facade. Corrugated roof replaced thatch in 1940s. Reputed to have contained coat of arms (now gone) altered. (Interior of Church Town Farmhouse not inspected).

Listing NGR: SW7110112582