Description

ST ERVAN
SW 86 NE
6/173 Trewinnick Farmhouse

II

2 adjoining farmhouses. Probably circa early to mid C17, extended in C18 and again
in late C19; the second farmhouse was added in 1827 for J. Bennett and extended in
circa mid C19. Slate rubble. The original house to the right (east) has dressed
granite quoins and later red brick window sashes, an asbestos slate roof with half-
hipped end to the right and gable end to the left, both with rebuilt red brick
chimney shafts. The 1827 house to the left has red brick window arches and a
Delabole slate gable-ended roof with reused old crested ridge tiles and red brick
gable end stacks.
Plan: The original circa early to mid C17 house to the right is of 2-room plan, each
room heated from an end stack and with a central entrance probably to a through or
cross passage. The curved wall at the rear of the lower left end may indicate a
stair turret here. The rear wing with a gable end stack, to the left of centre was
probably added in the C18 and was extended on its right hand side to form a dairy in
the late C19, probably at the same time as the rear porch was built in the left hand
angle of the rear wing.
In 1827 a separate house was built adjoining the left end forward of the original
house; it has a double depth plan with 2 principal front rooms heated from stacks at
the sides, a central entrance between, the rooms at the back are probably shallow
service rooms. In circa mid C19 a wing with a gable end stack was built at the back
to the left.
Exterior: 2 storeys. South front elevation. The building is in 2 distinct parts.
The original circa early C17 house set back to the right is nearly symmetrical, the
old window openings have slate cills, cambered red brick arches, granite quoins to
the jambs and late C20 windows with top opening lights. The central doorway has a
chamfered granite 4-centred arch frame with eroded pyramid stops and a C20 glazed
door.
Projecting forward to the left of the front is the 1827 house; it has a 2 storey
symmetrical 3 window front of original early C19 16-pane sashes with cambered red
brick arches with granite keystones and slate sills. Similar arch over the central
doorway which has a rectangular overlight with a diagonal intersecting glazing bars
and a C20 plank door. Above the door a granite tablet inscribed "J Bennett 1827".
The left hand (west) side has C19 16-pane sashes.
The back of the 1827 house has a central doorway and various small C19 casements and
a sash with glazing bars. The wing to the left has a blind gable end with red brick
stack.
At the back of this original house a gable-ended wing with a rebuilt red brick stack;
where the wing has been widened on the left hand side there is a window on each floor
of the end wall, a C19 16-pane sash on the first floor and a 12-pane horizontally
sliding sash to the ground floor. In the angle to the right a late C19 red brick
lean-to porch conceals the chamfered plinth of what might be the stair turret of the
main range.
Interior was not accessible at the time of the survey 1987. The old plan is likely
to remain and interesting carpentry and joinery probably survives.

Listing NGR: SW8993469824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507433

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