Description

ST ERVAN
SW 96 NW
7/166 Bogee Farmhouse including front
garden and back yard walls and
gates

II

Farmhouse. Mid C19. Slate rubble with dressed granite quoins and dressed granite
doorway and window frames. Band of dressed slate at first floor level. Rag slate
roof with gabled ends and cast-iron ogee-moulded gutters. Red brick stacks at gable
end, the right hand shaft rebuilt.
Plan: Double depth plan. Of the 2 principal front rooms, the left hand is larger
and there is an entrance hall between. The rear left hand room was the kitchen, the
rear right hand room the dairy. Behind the kitchen there is a single storey
outbuilding which was probably the wash house; at the back of the wash house there is
a privy. Recently the partition between the right hand front and rear rooms has been
removed.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window south front, the windows disposed
slightly to the right, all with chamfered granite frames and original sashes. 16-
pane sashes except for the first floor centre which is a narrow 12-pane sash and a
double 12-pane sash on the ground floor to the left. Central gabled stone porch with
a 9-pane fixed light window to the front on a side entrance; inner doorway has a C19
glazed and panelled door.
The fenestration at the back is asymmetrical with a tall 12-pane sash to the left of
centre; the doorway to the right of centre has a C20 door. To the right the single
storey wash house wing has a hipped slate roof and a glazed inner side elevation with
a row of 9-pane fixed-light windows. At the back of the wash house the privy has a
gable-ended roof and plank door with timber ventilation louvres above.
Including the contemporary front garden wall of slate rubble enclosing a small front
garden and a similar coeval back yard wall with 2 pairs of granite gate-posts and 2
simple wrought iron gates.
Interior: Not inspected, but may have interesting features such as its original
joinery.

Listing NGR: SW9074869447

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26577829

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