Description

SW 52 NE BREAGE TREVUVAS LANE

6/88 Trevurvas Wollas, front garden including well and adjoining building at approx 3m north west GV II

House, probably C17. Granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones, lintels and kneeler stones. Scantle slate roofs. Rendered granite chimney over junction of L-shaped gable ended roofs and granite stack over front gable end of wing. Moulded kneelers. Overall irregular L-shaped plan but also projecting slightly at the left hand side of the wing which adjoins in front at right angles to the left hand side of the main range. Overall irregular L-shaped plan formed by main range and wing projecting at front left, also at the left of the main range, filling the outer angle between the main range and the wing, is an unheated service room projecting beyond the left hand wall of the wing. Two room plan plus parlour wing at right angles joined at the corners with a doorway through and a probably later buttery/pantry filling the outside angle. The hall/kitchen is at the left hand side of the main 2-room part (now 1 room) and has an enormous fireplace with an oven. This range is built against a bank at the rear and the right hand room contains a well niche formerly fed by a spring. This right hand room, with a probably later smaller granite fireplace, was possibly originally a kind of buttery. There was formerly a passage running axially along the rear of the parlour wing approached by the doorway in the left hand wall and leading to a doorway beside the fireplace in the hall/kitchen. The upper floor in this part has been removed. Two storeys. Parlour front and hall/kitchen front at right angles to each other the regular one window parlour front facing south east and the nearly symmetrical 3- window hall/kitchen front facing south west. The parlour front has 16-pane 2-light casement to ground floor and 12-pane horned sash over. Flanking the 1st floor window below the original eaves level are 2 rows of pigeon holes. The hall/kitchen front has doorway left of middle (splayed inside, so was probably originally a window). C20 glazed door. Slate lean-to open porch. Fixed 9-pane casements to ground floor and 12-pane horned sashes to 1st floor openings. Interior remodelled in the C20 but retaining structural features described in the plan. Rubble garden wall at the front encloses a small rectangular garden. Dressed round- headed granite monolith gate piers to the gateway which aligns with the house doorway. At the left hand side of the house, a coped granite rubble wall surrounds a well on 2 sides. The 3rd (rear) side is a single storey outhouse. The well is complete with a wooden windlass with an iron crank handle, the windlass bearing on an unhewn granite monolith at one end and the outbuilding at the other end. Trevorvas Wollas has a very interesting but puzzling plan, the development of which might be resolved by making measured plans.

Listing NGR: SW5869128348

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