Lark Cottage

Lark Cottage is a house dating from the mid-to-late 17th century, with a 20th-century addition to the right which connects the house to an earlier stable. It is constructed of painted stone rubble with a slurried scantle slate roof, ridge tiles, and gable ends. A gable end stack is located on the left side, featuring a rubble shaft, cornice, and shaped top.

The original layout comprised a single room, with an external doorway at the left end, in front of the stack, which was blocked in the 19th century before a central front door was inserted. This door was subsequently blocked, and the original end doorway was reinstated. There is an integral stair tower to the rear of the room, and a two-story 20th-century addition is present at the right end, matching the roofline of the original house. The front has an irregular four-window appearance, with the rightmost bay being the 20th-century addition. The first floor has three two-light casements with six panes each, while the ground floor has four two-light casements with eight panes each, all with timber lintels. A central window on the left replaces a 19th-century door. All windows are 20th-century replacements. A single-storey rubble outhouse is attached to the right, built into the bank at an upper ground floor level. The left end features an external stack with a curved oven and a pitched slate cover. A 20th-century door with a hood is located on the right end. The rear elevation has a semi-circular stair tower with a roof that continues the pitch of the main roof, featuring a single narrow light toward the upper right side. A 20th-century casement is present at the first floor on the left side. The 20th-century addition to the left end is set back, with a porch at ground floor which is rendered.

The ground floor room contains cross beams with narrow chamfers. The gable end fireplace has rubble jambs, a flat chamfered timber lintel, and a clay oven to the rear right. A partition in the ground floor room, added in the 19th century, has been removed. The stair tower at the rear contains a stone newel stair with replaced slate treads. The first floor room has been partitioned. The feet of the principal rafters are visible, resting on the wall tops and are chamfered. This is a rare survival, and is part of the early settlement of Tremar village, predating the 19th-century expansion associated with mining.