Description

ST AGNES TREVELLAS SW 75 SW 4/222 Trevellas Farmhouse including front - garden walls GV II

Farmhouse, including front garden walls. C17, remodelled circa late C18. Granite ashlar front, otherwise granite and killas rubble. Dry Delabole slate hipped roof over front range grouted scantle slate roofs over front part of rear wing and on lean-to at the left. Rendered rubble stack with brick shaft over left-hand wall, probably C17 rubble stack with brick shaft behind and a brick chimney over C17 stack between right-hand room and rear wing. Plan: Double depth plan, remodelled circa late C18 from what may have been a larger probably U-shaped plan. 2 rooms at the front flanking a former through passage; back kitchen behind left-hand room with C18 stair on its right (approached from the passage) and a 1-room-plan wing at right angles behind the right-hand room. This wing has a C17 fireplace with 2 ovens (inserted later). C20 extension over back kitchen. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window south front with central doorway. Circa early C20 porch with cusped barge boards to its front gable; narrow window over, otherwise wide window openings with tripartite sashes. Ground floor window openings are spanned by flat arches with granite voussoirs. Windows are circa late C19 or C20 horned sashes. Interior: Largely unaltered since the C18 with many features of this date including; late C18 dog-leg stair; Adsm-style chimney-piece in the right-hand room (the parlour) moulded dado rail in left-hand room; and 6-panel doors. C17 fireplace with ovolo- moulded hardwood lintel and 2 later cloam ovens in rear wing . First floor rooms and old (probably C18) roof structure not inspected. Large irregularly shaped garden in front of the house is bounded on 3 sides by high rubble walls. Right of house is a higher wall with scantle slate copings. Screening the farmyard. Lower wall at the front has a C17 terminal pier at either end. The piers have moulded and tapered caps, with ball finials, shaped like pawns in the game of chess.

Listing NGR: SW7331351699

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)