Treworder Farmhouse

Treworder Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from circa the early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It appears to be a remodelling of an earlier house. The exterior is painted killas rubble with wooden lintels and slate sills, topped by a scantle slate roof with gable ends. There are large stone stacks with brick shafts at the gable ends, one external to the left, one external lateral on the north-east wall of the rear wing, and a further brick axial chimney over a single-storey range to the right.

The original layout is now difficult to determine, but the house was remodelled circa the early 18th century as a two-room house with a central passage leading to a central rear stair turret, plus a kitchen wing to the rear right. A narrow service room was added under a two-storey outshut to the rear of the left-hand room in the 19th century. An earlier room survives at a higher level within the single-storey building to the right (north-east), incorporating earlier stone fragments.

The original south-east front was symmetrical with five windows, but in the 19th century, the first-floor windows at numbers two and four were blocked, and the ground-floor window was completely blocked, with the pier of masonry between the windows removed to create window openings. A central doorway is present. The farmhouse has 20th-century doors and windows. The single-storey part to the right has doorways to the left of each room, also 20th century, as well as 20th-century windows. An early 20th-century stable-type ledged and braced door is located on the right-hand side, with chamfered stone reused as a jambstone to the right, and a stone with a concentric ring carving further to the right. A 20th-century lean-to porch covers the left-hand doorway. The rear of the farmhouse has been largely unchanged since the 19th century.

The interior was extensively remodelled in the 19th century, but it retains an original dog-leg staircase with a 19th-century balustrade, and fielded dado panelling in the left-hand front room, maintaining the original ceiling level. Hearths are partly blocked, except for a large, slightly splayed fireplace in the left-hand room of the single-storey part, featuring a chamfered grown oak lintel. The roof structure dates from circa the late 19th century.

Historically, Treworder Farmhouse was the home of Richard Lobb, High Sheriff of Cornwall (1651-2), Justice of the Peace, and Captain of Militia for West Cornwall. He was an influential Puritan involved in the New England Corporation, founded by Edward Winslow, who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. Richard Lobb issued a token farthing in 1665, of which no examples are known to survive.