Description

ST GERMANS
SX 35 Nli
4/77 Farm buildings about 30
Metres north of Treboul
Farmhouse
II
GV

Group of estate farm buildings, including large stables. Circa 1860, built
for the Port Eliot estate by the Great Western Railway. Few later
alterations. Slatestone rubble with stone dressings. Slurried slate roofs.
Planned farmyard, overall U-plan with large stables, barn with a connecting
covered way used as a housing for a threshing machine, to second barn and
attached cart shed.
Stables 2 storeys, with gable end to front and rear, with raised gable over
clerestorey ventilators with scalloped boards to eaves; front gable end has
central C20 double doors, blocked round arch with dressed stone head to right
and left and above. 4 doors to right side. Left side has 2 doors and 2
ventilators. Inside, the horses were kept to one side, and cows at a lower
level to the right hand side.
Barn to south east. Barn with straw loft on upper floor. 2 storeys, with 4
doors on front gable end with upper loading door and ventilation slit. Left
side has ventilation slit, 2 doors, one blocked, and 2 windows, one blocked.
Right side has 2 round-arched blocked doorways with dressed stone heads.
Covered way joins this building to a barn to south west, of 2 storeys with
hipped roof. In the end facing the covered way, 2 doors at ground floor and
upper loading door. Right side has double doors with brick segmental heads,
blocked upper loading door. Left side has 3 upper louvred windows.
Attached to north, a lower 2 storey shed, of 2 bays, with 2 double doors and
window, loading door above.
Cart shed to end right, of 5 bays, open-fronted, upper level supported on
circular granite piers set on roughly-hewn granite bases. Slate-hung at
upper level, with 2 windows and central loading door.
Treboul Farmhuse and farm buildings were built as compensation for land lost
in St Germans village when the railway was constructed.

Listing NGR: SX3464057473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614479

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6