Trevayne

Trevayne is a house, now functioning as a nursing home, built around 1830 to 1840. It features a brick structure that is pebbledashed and colour-washed, topped with slate roofs. The building has a very irregular plan and elevation, consisting of five sections that vary in height from one to two storeys.

The first section, which was formerly a coach-house, has double-leaf boarded and glazed doors set in a rusticated surround with a hoodmould above. On the first floor, there is a two-light casement window under a hoodmould, and a small oblong window in the gable. The section has plain close verges and a small finial at the apex.

The second section features double-leaf Gothick panelled doors leading to a former open courtyard, set within a four-centred arch with a hoodmould, topped by a very small oriel window and a coped crow-step gable.

The third section has a central cross mullion window flanked by single-light transomed windows, all under a hoodmould. The fourth section, which has rusticated quoins, slightly breaks forward and includes a three-light mullion-and-transom window under a hoodmould on the ground floor, and a similar two-light window on the first floor, also under a hoodmould. There is an oblong blank opening under a hoodmould on the raised coped gable, which is supported by shaped kneelers.

The fifth section also features rusticated quoins and contains a Gothick panelled door beneath a fanlight with Gothick glazing bars, set in a pointed opening with a hoodmould that has carved stops. To the right, there is a three-light mullion-and-transom window under a hoodmould, and on the first floor, there are two-light mullion-and-transom windows. All openings are framed in shallow rusticated surrounds, and the building has coped gables with end and axial stacks.

The interior has been largely modernised but retains a simple early 19th-century cut-string staircase with octagonal Gothick newels.