Description

ST BURYAN TREWOOFE SW 42 NW 5/168 Trewoofe Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. C17, remodelled circa 1740, extended in the C18 and early-mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings including some reused C17 chamfered masonry. Grouted scantle slate roofs with gable ends except for dairy which has hipped end. Dressed granite stacks over the gable ends. Plan: Irregular plan. Original 2-room-plan house at the front (now 1 room) with probably C18 wide 1-room plan wing at right angles behind the left-hand room, with axial passage leading to stair in front; a C20 outshut behind the right-hand room; a diary adjoining the rear right-hand corner of the rear wing and a flower-bunching room adjoining rear left-hand corner of dairy. Original house has oven in C18 rebuilt fireplace in left-hand room and probably C17 parlour fireplace in right- hand room. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south-front with approximately central doorway. Eaves heightened circa early C19, openings probably remodelled at the same time. The ground floor openings incorporate C17 chamfered masonry. Doorway has chamfered jambs and lintel. The right-hand jamb also has a chamfer to its right- hand side (possibly a former fireplace lintel where it adjoined a window bay) 4-panel door, C20 16-pane horned sashes. Left-hand wall of rear wing has wide window opening to ground floor with slightly cambered granite arch with projecting keystones. Interior: Large granite fireplaces: a C17 hollow-chamfered parlour fireplace; a C18 remodelled fireplace in the left-hand room with domed oven and chamfered lintel, and an enormous fireplace of uncertain date in the rear wing. Other features include a 2-panel door and a resited C18 arch carried on consoles.

Listing NGR: SW4393525395

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