Trenance Cottages Museum

Trenance Cottages Museum is a row of three attached houses, now functioning as a single museum. They likely date from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with few 20th-century alterations. The buildings are constructed of painted stone rubble and feature a hipped bitumenised slate roof with ridge tiles and axial stacks with brick shafts.

The layout consists of one house on the left, which has a two-room plan, each room originally featuring a gable end stack, with a central entrance. To the right are a pair of attached cottages, built as one unit, each with a one-room plan heated by a shared axial stack and with entrances on the outer sides. There is a mid-19th century addition at the rear left, also with a one-room plan. Attached to the front right is a single-storey addition, possibly originally a wash-house, which is heated by a gable end stack and has a small single-storey shed at the front gable end.

The exterior of the left house is two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window front. The ground floor features a central 19th-century six-panelled door flanked by two 19th-century four-pane sashes, both with keystones. The first floor has two gabled dormers with four-pane sashes and two pigeon holes to the left. The right side has an asymmetrical four-window range, with four four-pane sashes on the first floor. The ground floor has two four-pane sashes with a door between to the left, and to the right, there is a four-pane sash, a door, and a six-pane light. The front single-storey wing has a door on the inner side and a lower single-storey shed attached at the front gable end. The right side features the one-room plan addition with a blocked window on the ground floor, and the left end has a four-pane sash at the first floor to the right. All windows are 19th-century sashes or 20th-century copies.

Inside, the left house has a straight boxed-in stair located at the rear of the entrance passage, along with a recess in the rear wall that has a slate cill and tap. The central house includes a small room to the left with a slate-paved floor and a front pantry featuring 19th-century beams, and a straight stair leading to two rooms on the first floor. The end house to the right has had its floor removed. All doors throughout the museum are four-panelled.