Description

SW 72 NW CONSTANTINE

8/62 Treviades Barton including garden area walls adjoining south 10.10.85 II*

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa late C16, remodelled in circa late C18. Granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, lintels and stacks. Slate roof with gabled ends; the left (west) and right (east) ends are slightly lower and have grouted scantle slates; rear range has half-hipped end to west. Two dressed granite axial stacks and one stack at left gable end, all with moulded caps and drips; the right end stack rebuilt in red brick. The rear range has a gable end stack to right and two rear lateral stacks, that to left is very large and has slated set-offs. Plan: Courtyard plan with a parallel kitchen service range at the rear (north) linked to the main front range (south) by a short rear right hand wing to the east and wall which forms the fourth side of a small courtyard. The plan of the main front range was altered in the late C18 when it had four rooms, the 2 centre rooms separated by a central cross-passage, which led from the front doorway to a stair hall at the back of the centre rooms. The passage partitions have been removed in C20 to form one large central room with a fireplace at each end. The 2 end rooms occupy the full depth of the front range and each has a gable end fireplace. At the back of the left hand (west) room there is what may be a blocked stair tower or perhaps a smoking chamber. The rear kitchen-service range has a large fireplace at the right (east) end and 2 other lateral stacks at the back. Exterior: 2-storeys. South front of the main range is 5 windows wide and asymmetrical; the central 3-window range has raised eaves. Late C19 or early C20 sashes with vertical glazing bars only and granite lintels and quoins. The ground and first floor of the right hand end of the front has original 3-light chamfered mullion windows with later casements. Central doorway with circa late C19 or C20 gabled porch and C20 glazed door. The rear (north) elevation of the main range facing the courtyard has small gable to right which may be a stair turret or perhaps smoking chamber and a multipane stair window to the left. The south front elevation of the back range has asymmetrical fenestration of sashes and casements and to the right on the first floor a circa early C19 19-pane horizontally sliding sash. The rear (north) elevation of the back range has 2 lateral stacks, that to the right projects and is very large and has slated set-offs. The wall on the west side of the courtyard has a doorway with a chamfered granite lintel. Including granite rubble walls to the south enclosing a small garden in front of the house; the south wall is a lower retaining wall ramped up at either end to taller side walls which are attached to the house; the west side wall has a gateway with a chamfered granite lintel and there is a granite mounting block on the west gable end of the main range. Interior: The central-cross passage partitions have been removed to form a long central room which has fielded dado panelling and a chimney-piece at the left end with a dentilled cornice, urns and festoons and flanking alcoves with shaped shelves. Similarly shelved alcoves at the right end flanking a C20 chimney-piece. Smaller but full depth east room has closely spaced chamfered ceiling beams. The west room similar in plan has been stripped of plaster exposing stone walls and ceiling joists; the fireplace in the west end wall has a square-section granite lintel and to its right the former stair turret (or smoking chamber) doorway is blocked. The stairhall behind the central room has some possibly reused early C17 panelling with a fluted frieze and moulded cornice. The C18 open-well staircase has an open string, turned balusters, square newels with moulded caps and moulded handrails. The rear service-kitchen range has a large open fireplace in the east gable end with granite jambs and a large unchamfered timber lintel and a floor laid with granite setts. The house has been very little altered since the C18 and most of the C18 joinery remains intact including fielded 2-panel doors and moulded doorframes etc. and many of the moulded cornices survive. Roof: The roofs over the main range and the rear right hand wing are probably C18, having straight elm principal rafters crossed at the apex, and with collars lapped, pegged and nailed to the face of the principals. The roof over either end of the main range have been replaced in C20 with soft wood trusses. The roof over the back range has a nailed soft wood structure. Treviades was held by the Treviades until about 1320 when it passed to the Trefusis family who held it until 1920 and probably built the existing house in circa late C16. The C18 remodelling was probably carried out for the Symons family who held the farm on a lease at the end of the C18. Source: Charles Henderson. A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall. pages 182 to 187.

Listing NGR: SW7478928811

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