Description

SX 15 NW ST WINNOW

6/146 Trevego
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GV II*

Dower house, now farmhouse built in late C16 for widow of Sir William Mohun who
purchased Boconnoc in 1579. Rubblestone with roof of C19 slates with gabled ends with
asymmetrical gable end to front projecting wing. Massive stone square stacks on gable
ends and projecting wing to rear. Plan altered to form 3 room with cross passage and
staircase in projecting wing to rear. Later staircase added and house extended to
rear in mid-C19.
2 storeys and attic, asymmetrical 4 window east front with projecting wing to
right and centre part set slightly forward. Straight joint towards left-hand gable
end. Ground floor with C20 3-light casement with glazing bars to right of early C20
plank door. 2- and 3-light C20 casement to right. Entrance door at junction with
projecting gabled wing with C20 porch with plank door and hipped roof. 3-light C20
casement in projecting wing. Above four 3-light C20 casements with glazing bars.
Interior ground floor rooms altered. Doorcases flanking staircase on north side
with ovolo moulded frame and scroll stops with small pyramids at bases. Large
fireplace on left-hand (south) gable end, partly blocked. Continues across full
length of gable end. Room on north originally panelled with fine plasterwork. Framed
staircase from ground to first floor. First to attic, mid to late C17 oak staircase
with closed string, ovolo moulded and stopped square newels with flat bun finials,
vase turned balusters and heavy moulded handrail. In first floor rooms on south,
elaborately plastered ceiling, circa early C17 divided by plasterboard partition.
Ribbed layout with figures in deep relief holding garlands of flowers and surrounded
by ovals of foliage. Simple bolection moulded fireplace with panelled upper section
continuing up to cornice and framing a painted board with text'strive for the truth
unto death, and defend justice for thy life, and the Lord God shall fight for thee
against thine enemies'.
Central first floor room now partly divided. C17 doorcase with ovolo moulded
frame and scroll stops. 2 panelled door. Coved plasterwork frieze with intertwined
foliage and shells, circa C17. Fireplace surmounted by plasterwork heraldic arms of
Hawkey family who were granted arms in 1656. (Possibly slightly pre-dates granting).
In first floor room on north, small deep niche on rear wall with painted head and
granite shelf.
Roof of 10 bays with cambered chamfered collars, side pegged and pegged at apex.
Roof timbers to projecting gable end to front covered over.
House passed from Mohun family to Knapman family and then by marriage to Hawkeys.
Barton Farm
Information from tenant. Plasterwork and staircase illustrated in H Lander,
House and Cottage Interiors, 1982 p.62 and 83.

Listing NGR: SX1383259863

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535611

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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