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Summary

The house at Roscarrock is well preserved and incorporates C15 and C16 features.

Protected Status

• Listed Building (I) 351337: ROSCARROCK

Other References/Statuses

• OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW98SE 1
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 26240.01
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW98SE 5

Monument Type(s):

• HOUSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD) + Sci.Date
• HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

The 2nd edition OS 6 inch map records Roscarrock as the "remains of a barton" (b1). It is a Listed Building, Grade I and is described in the listing as an extensive and interesting group of buildings of C15/early C16 origin, re-fashioned at various dates. The front range was re-fashioned in the C18. The range of buildings is roughly quadrangular (b2).

The house has a simple walled garden and a raised walk (4).

A site visit by the OS revealed that the house is well preserved and incorporates C16 features (h1). A visit by CAU revealed a possible gunloop at SW 9874 8045. This was a greenstone block, pierced with a dumb-bell shaped hole. The stone was found redeposited with other stones including a granite moulding. The gunloop is similar to examples on the ground floor at Pengersick Castle and suggests that Roscarrock manor house may have been partly fortified (h2).

Dendrochronology has been undertake. The south-west range of this courtyard plan building consists of trusses using principals with curved feet resting on a decorated wall plate, with simple collars and no tie beams. The north-west end has curved wind bracing. The present floor re-uses decorated timber which proved to be undatable. Dating commissioned by English Heritage. I. Tyers, 'Tree-ring analysis of oak timbers from Roscarrock, near Port Isaac, Cornwall', CfA report 30/2004 (5, 6).

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Site history:
1: 1972. FLETCHER, MJ/OS
2: 1986. CAU
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<1> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 6 Inch Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4051.

<2> DOE, Listed Building Description (original DOE), AUG 1960, 9 (Bibliographic reference). SCO5173.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.

<4> CORNWALL GARDENS TRUST, 1998, Historic Garden Register Review programme for Cornwall (Report). SCO28473.

<5> Vernacular Architecture Group, 2000, Dendrochronology Database, http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/vag_dendro/full_record.cfm?id=1790 (Digital archive). SCO31573.

<6> Tyers, I, 2004, Tree-Ring Analysis of Oak Timbers from Roscarrock, near Port Isaac, Cornwall (Report 30/2004) (Report). SCO2628.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• ECO5069 - Historic Garden Register Review programme for Cornwall (Ref: EH/Cornwall - 21)
• ECO2249 - Roscarrock, nr Port Isaac, Cornwall (Ref: 30/2004)

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