Description

HELSTON

SW6627 TRESPRISON FARM
631-1/5/275 Nos.1, 2 AND 3 Tresprison Cottages
and attached forecourt walls and
railings

II

Two attached houses and attached cottage. C18 houses, early
C19 cottage. Coursed Elvan rubble walls with flat Elvan arches
to No.1 (left), granite quoins; oak lintels to No.2 except for
granite lintel to later doorway; steep corrugated iron roof
(replacing former thatch), scantle slate to cottage and
corrugated asbestos to outshuts; Elvan ashlar end stacks to
original houses, brick stack on right and brick stacks at
rear.
Single-depth plan plus later 1-room-plan cottage on the right
and later rear outshuts. At some time the houses have been
converted to 4 cottages but now probably reverted to being 2
houses but all empty at the time of survey. 2 storeys; overall
7-window range. Houses originally with symmetrical 3-window
fronts with central doorways, now with extra doorway to front
of each, left of original doorways; 4-panel doors to Nos 1 &
3; original mid C19 twelve-pane hornless sashes to No.3 and to
right of No.2, otherwise C20 windows in original openings
(probably originally horizontal-sliding sashes with thick
glazing bars).
INTERIOR not inspected but likely to retain original
structural features and original carpentry and joinery.
Subsidiary features: original rubble and earth hedge and
gateways with granite monolithic piers to original houses and
original mid C19 granite ashlar forecourt wall and iron
railings in front of cottage (No.3). These two C18 houses,
built as a near pair, are an unusual building type of this
date in Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW6711427249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502659

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)