Trelew Farmhouse

Trelew Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the mid 18th century. It features painted shale rubble walls with dressed granite quoins and flat arches over the ground floor openings, along with slate sills. The roof is made of ripped scantle slate and slopes lower at the rear, with brick chimneys on the side walls.

The layout includes a central lobby entrance, with a kitchen/living room on the left and a parlour on the right. A central rear stair leads off from the living room, flanked by narrow service rooms on either side. The building is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical three-window front on the southeast side. The central doorway is topped with a wooden hood supported by brackets and features a four-panel door with later glazing in the top panels.

The left-hand kitchen/living room has a wider window opening with an early 19th-century hornless sash, while the right-hand parlour has a 16-pane hornless sash from the same period. The first-floor windows are original 18th-century 16-pane two-light casements with thick internally ovolo-moulded glazing bars.

Inside, the farmhouse is virtually unaltered since the 18th century, retaining much of its original carpentry and joinery. This includes a closed string dog leg stair with square newel posts, moulded caps, column turned balusters, and a rounded handrail. Most doors are two-panel, except for the doorway leading into the left-hand service room, which has a reeded architrave. The parlour features a fine eared wooden chimney piece with key pattern detail beneath a moulded cornice, flanked by original niches with shaped shelves and fielded panels on the cupboard doors below. Some of the panelling from this house is now housed in Truro Museum. It is unusual to find a small 18th-century farmhouse with such high-quality details.