Description

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- Lower Colbiggan Farmhouse
II

Farmhouse. Mid C18, enlarged, with some alterations in mid C19, with few later
alterations. Granite rubble, cob, partly rendered. Slate roof with ridge coping
tiles and gable ends, gable end stacks with brick shafts.
Plan: originally a one-room plan house in granite rubble, with entrance directly into
the room, heated by the gable end stack to left. Circa mid C19, the house was
extended by one room to right, in cob, rendered over, with gable end stack to right.
There is a single storey outshut to the rear of the original room, with stack to left
side, and a later single storey addition was built in rubble with the angle to the
main house, with stack for copper, used as scullery/washhouse.
2 storeys, to left with 2-light 6-pane casement at ground and first floor, half-
glazed door with timber lintel to right. To right in the cob addition, similar
casement at ground and first floor; all windows of C19. Left side has external stack
with curved oven at base to left. The outshut has brick end stack. At the right
side, the gable end wall is in rubble. To rear, the outshut is of single storey with
loft, with the roof forming a catslid with the roof over the main house; on the inner
side, a 2-light 3-pane casement lighting the loft. The rear of the outshut has 2-
light 6-pane casement and 6-pane light. Single storey rubble addition to left with
corrugated iron roof, 2-light 3-pane casement to rear and door.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX0069263390

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26437108

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