Trentholme

Trentholme is a house with origins in the 17th century, significantly remodelled and extended in 1748 for Robert Raven, with a later 18th-century addition to the right and 19th-century alterations. Renovations occurred in 1986-7. The house is constructed of brick, with Flemish bond to the earlier section of the front and English bond to the right extension, and has a pantile roof. It is L-shaped, comprising a four-room west range that incorporates a two-room central entrance hall to the left, a later single-room extension to the right, and a mid-18th-century single-room addition to the rear left. The house is two storeys high and four bays wide. It has a stepped plinth. The entrance, to the second bay, features a good mid-18th-century doorcase with an architrave, scrolled consoles with acanthus feet, an entablature with a carved Gothick frieze, a central panel hung with guttae and bearing a decorated T-shaped motif, a moulded cornice with Greek key ornament, and a shallow hood. It has a 20th-century glazed door and plain overlight. To the left of the entrance is a 19th-century four-pane sash in a 18th-century flush wooden architrave beneath a segmental brick arch. To the right is a 19th-century canted bay window with two- and four-pane sashes, pilasters, a panelled frieze, a bracketed cornice, and a flat roof, and a pair of four-pane sashes in reveals beneath segmental arches. A datestone above the entrance is inscribed "Robert Raven 1748." The first floor has a 19th-century paired four-pane sash to the third bay, and three four-pane sashes with lintels at eaves level. There is a stepped and finely-dentilled brick eaves cornice. The right gable has tumbled-in brick to a raised gable, and the roof is hipped to the left. A large central axial stack is present. The left return shows a straight joint between the builds, a blocked window to the rear section, a similar dentilled eaves cornice, and a large axial stack, with tumbled-in brick to the raised gable. The rear gable end has a blocked ground-floor opening beneath a brick flat arch, a first-floor 16-pane sliding sash beneath a segmental arch, and a carved stone tablet (presumably reset) inscribed "1678 R W S." The interior retains spine beams and inglenook fireplaces.