Description

DAVIDSTOW
SX 18 SE
4/128 Trevillian's Gate
- II

House. Circa C18 origins partly rebuilt in 1836 for R C Vosper (datestone).
Rendered stone rubble. Dressed stone arches to openings. Slate roof with hipped end
on right and gable end on left. Brick axial stack to left of centre and projecting
stone rubble rear lateral stack to right.
Plan: 2 room and cross or through passage plan, the left hand room heated by an axial
stack backing onto the passage and the right hand room heated by a rear lateral
stack. C20 extension to rear.
Exterior: 2 storeys regular 3 window front with dressed stone flat arches with
keystones to window openings. Entrance to right of centre with pointed arch with
roll mould, incised fleur de lys and datestone RCV
1836.
Interior: Ceiling beams replaced. Unmoulded granite lintel to fireplace of left hand
room. Dressed granite flat arch to fireplace in right hand room. First floor not
inspected.
Gate to Basil Manor, St Clether held by the Trevillians from temp Elizabeth I to the
C18. House restored by R C Vosper in 1836 when the arch over the entrance was
installed. The arch has reputedly come from the ruins of the chapel on the eastern
peak of Roughtor. The cottage became an inn in the later C19 (Britannia Inn).

Listing NGR: SX1663483914

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435157

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)