Description

ST HILARY TREWHELLA LANE
SW 53 SE
2/187 Trewhella Farmhouse

- II

Farmhouse. Probably C18. Rubble walls, oak lintels except for granite lintel over
doorway. Wheat reed thatched L-plan roof with scantle slate roof over lean-to in
the angle. Brick chimneys over the gable ends, the right hand chimney is of mostly
original C18 bricks and the chimney over the rear gable of the kitchen wing is over
a half-round-on-plan tapered external rubble stack.
Plan: L-shaped plan plus later lean-to in the angle. Original plan probably 2 rooms
with cross passage between with wider hall/kitchen left and parlour on the lower
end of the slope, right. Probably later C18 a 1-room plan kitchen wing was added
behind the right hand room and in the C19 a dairy or pantry lean-to was built in
the rear angle.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south-south-east front with doorway
right of middle. 4-panel door. C20 2-light casement windows.
Interior: 2 C18 bowtell-moulded beams at former cross passage position, otherwise
later features including fat side-bead moulded beams in the kitchen. First floor
rooms and roof structures not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW5595732124

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436572

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