Visual Buildings Record (level 1), Watching Brief at Church View Farm, Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall

Full building recording works were initially conducted by A. Allen ACIfA in November 2025, whilst eight scheduled trenches were monitored by Dr S. Walls MCIfA. All recording was undertaken in line with best practice and follows the guidance outlined in: CIfA's Standard and Guidance for the Archaeological Investigation and Recording of Standing Buildings or Structures (2014) and Historic England's Understanding Historic Buildings: A Guide to Good Recording Processes (2016). The discussion of the buildings' setting follows the approaches outlined in the appropriate guidance (DoT guidance and Historic England 2015). Though ruinous, the house forms part of a narrative of the development of the settlement of Tuckingmill, resulting from the 19th century industrial mining boom in this area. Church View Farm, which was constructed in the mid-19th century, certainly after 1841 and potentially prior to 1851, possibly by William Rutter, a mine agent and captain of the nearby South Crofty Mine. It appears never to have had much of a land holding accompanying it, suggesting it was intended less as a farm and more as a relatively substantial, detached residence. It seems to have become the dwelling of those primarily involved in farming in the later part of the 19th century but it seems not to have specifically been named as Church View Farm until the early 20th century. The Grade II Listed Church of All Saints, after which the farm and adjacent road takes its name was constructed from 1843. The building has group value with the street along which it sits, with defining characteristics, including decorative pediments as seen in similar dated properties along Church View. It is unusual in that it survives with a converted domestic range, complete with added stove and copper which provides evidence of the original internal layout of the house and its subsequent development. Nine archaeological evaluation trenches were excavated on the site. These did not reveal any significant archaeological features, aside from modern service cuts and a shallow drainage ditch associated with the raised trackway to the south-east. Given the results, no further archaeological mitigation is recommended in this instance.