Description

SANCREED
SW 42 NW
5/283 Trevorian Old Farmhouse
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II
Farmhouse. C18. Dressed coursed granite rubble with snecks, at the front, otherwise
granite rubble with large moorstone dressings. Fairly steep scantle slate roof
(formerly thatched) sweeping lower over outshut at rear left. Tall dressed granite
chimneys over the gable ends. Eaves heightened slightly circa C20; surviving kneeler
stones indicate that gables were originally coped. Corrugated iron roof over
adjoining outbuilding.
Play: L-shaped plan with originally 2 rooms at the front flanking probably a lobby
entrace (now 1 room) and stair and a service room in an integral outshut (partly
rebuilt in the (C20). Later outhouse on the right.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Slightly asymmetrical 2-window south front with approximately
central doorway. Old ledged (now loose) door, C19 12-pane hornless sashes (with high
meeting rails) to ground floor openings and C19 12-pane casements to first floor
openings.
Interior: Large granite fireplace at left-hand end has wooden lintel over the
opening and a domed corbelled stone oven behind the left-hand jamb; C18 bowtell-
moulded ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: SW4226828857

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612908

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Recommended Books

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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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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey