Treago

Treago is a fortified house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries, and further changes around 1840. It has been restored in the mid-20th century. The house is said to have been owned by the Mynors family since the early 15th century, before any of the existing structures were built. The alterations from around 1840 are in the Tudor style. The building is constructed of square sandstone rubble, sandstone ashlar, and has render on the upper 18th-century part of the southeast tower, with Welsh slate roofs.

Treago has a square courtyard plan, which has been built over, featuring corner towers and a tower porch on the north front. It stands three storeys high. The north elevation includes four windows between the towers, with the second window from the left being occupied by the porch. The ground floor has sash windows, with a 20th-century glazing bar door to the right. The first floor features square-headed windows with two round-headed lights, except for the porch window, which has three lights. The top floor windows are similar to those on the first floor but are blind and shorter. The tower porch is castellated and has 4-centred chamfered outer and inner arches from the 16th century, accessed by a short flight of steps leading to the entrance.

Inside, entry through the porch previously led to a screens passage and hall, which is now used as a kitchen. Part of the hammer-beam roof of the hall remains in a restored state, though it is partly obscured by an inserted floor. The northwest ground floor room features a late 17th-century plaster ceiling with elaborate oval panels. There is also a late 17th-century dog-leg staircase with twisted balusters at the rear of the former screens passage, and a staircase from around 1840 in the center of the former courtyard leading up to a small top floor gallery. Treago is listed as Grade I for its surviving medieval fabric and plan form.