Description

ST HILARY
SW 53 SW
1/127 North Treveneague Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Painted rubble with granite dressings. Scantle slate
roof with brick chimneys over the gable ends.
Plan: unusually deep double-depth plan: 2 reception rooms to the front plus butler's
pantry adjoining the right of the left hand room (probably dining room) and entrance
hall between butler's pantry and right hand room (probably parlour); at rear middle a
stair hall with main stair, and service stair on its left; left of the service stair
a large kitchen and right of the main stair a large dairy or pantry. On the left of
the house is a circa mid C19 lean-to former wash house and store (now kitchen); at
the rear is a later large lean-to porch and adjoining the rear right-hand corner is a
mounting block.
Exterior : 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south-east front slightly wider to
left. Late C19 or C20 4-pane sashes and C20 door. Original distyle Doric porch with
granite columns on square plinths, rectangular fielded panels to the frieze of the
entablature and consoles with acanthus detail behind.
Rear has original windows to most openings : 24-pane hornless sash to tall stair
window; 20 pane hornless sash to ground and first floor, right, and 2-light casement
behind original stanchions to dairy, left. Wide roof dormer over to light former
servants quarters in attic.
Interior : virtually unaltered since built with original carpentry and joinery
including stairs, doors and archways to stair hall and landing.

Listing NGR: SW5473032618

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612975

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (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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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)