Description

SW 73 NW STITHIANS TREVALES

2/298 Trevales House
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GV II

Small country house. Circa mid C18, extended circa late C19. Granite
ashlar walls at the front, dressed granite to extensions, otherwise
painted rubble. Dry Delabole slate roofs; half-hipped over original
house towards left, otherwise hipped and with coped or pedimented
gables. Rendered brick stacks over either side of the principal part
of the original house and at rear of extension, and there is a large
external stack over a window bay at the right-hand end.
Plan: Double depth plan. Original house has 2 reception rooms at the
front: a parlour on the left and a former parlour on the right,
remodelled in the C19 to make a 2 storey galleried hall and
incorporating former central entrance hall. The original stair hall
is between the large rear rooms with the original stone flagged
kitchen on the left. There is an integral one room wide service wing
on the left and there are 2 cellars: a large vaulted cellar under the
left-hand side of the house and a smaller cellar under the stairs.
Circa late C19 a large cross wing was added on the right of the C18
house. This deeper wing is 2 rooms deep and has projecting 2-storey
bay windows.
Exterior: 2 storeys, 1:3:1 bay south-south-west front. Left-hand bay
is lower and is a coped gable end of the service wing. Next 3 bays
are a symmetrical 3 window entrance front with central doorway. There
is a plinth and parapet string and an ashlar parapet (extended in the
C19 over the extension) but the parapet now forms the eaves of the
roof, the wide window openings are spanned by very shallow keyed
arches. Original panelled door and eared doorcase within circa early
C20 glazed porch with low pitched gable and shaped barge board. The
windows are circa late C18 paired 12-pane sashes with some original
glass except for horned copy at ground floor left. Wide C19 wing
projects forward on the right and has central 4 light mullioned window
with side lights in 2 storey projecting bay surmounted by a triangular
pediment with moulded cornice. There is a similar window bay to the
right-hand return wall, lighting the rear room. Rear has 3 C18 paired
sashes and one horned copy. Built out in front of former stair window
is a large 4-light transommed window with round-arch-headed lights and
coloured glass.
Interior: Largely remodelled when extended and most of the features
including plaster ceiling cornices, chimney-pieces and cantilevered
gallery over the hall are of this period. Some C18 features survive
however, including a dog-leg stair with closed string and column-
turned balusters, stone flagged floor in the kitchen and brick vaulted
cellars with their original storage compartments.

Listing NGR: SW7435035840

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613779

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)