Treveague Farmhouse

Treveague Farmhouse

A farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, remodelled around 1700, with alterations and additions from the 19th century and a few later changes. The building is constructed of painted slatestone rubble, partly rendered, with a hipped slate roof featuring ridge tiles. Chimney stacks rise at both the right and left ends, and an axial stack with brick shafts punctuates the roofline.

The house follows a three-room plan, possibly originally with a through passage. The lower end room is positioned to the left and was heated by an end stack. The passage occupies the right side, with the hall to the rear, heated from the axial stack with its fireplace set at the right side of the room. The upper end room is to the right, heated from an end stack. Around 1700, a stair tower was added at the rear of the passage. Two later outshuts extend to the rear—one behind the hall and one behind the upper end room. To the front of the upper end room stands a single-storey scullery and dairy addition. The upper end room itself is likely an 18th-century addition; the axial hall stack would originally have been positioned at the end of the house.

The exterior presents two storeys in an asymmetrical four-window front, with two additional windows to the right in the upper end. The main range features a late 19th-century gabled porch with two-light casements having round-arched lights and a door at the right side. To the left are a 19th-century French window and a four-pane sash. At first-floor level to the left is an 18th-century twelve-pane sash in an exposed box frame, alongside three 19th-century four-pane sashes. Paired sashes appear at ground-floor level to the right. The single-storey scullery and dairy at the right end has a scantle slate roof with a window opening on the inner side, a brick stack on the outer side, a four-pane sash, and a 20th-century door. Two late 19th-century six-pane sashes sit at first-floor level to the right end, with one larger 19th-century six-pane sash at ground-floor level, set within cambered brick arches. The left end is rendered and displays a large external stack with a 19th-century brick shaft and cornice. The right end has a 19th-century six-pane sash at first-floor level. At the rear, a 19th-century two-light three-pane casement appears at first-floor level to the left. The stair tower has a hipped roof with a late 19th-century margin-glazed sash at ground-floor level and a 20th-century two-light three-pane casement at first floor. To the left extends an outshut of a single storey with a loft space, featuring a two-light casement at ground-floor level and a four-light window with lapped glazing to the loft, alongside a 20th-century window to the right. A lower lean-to to the left displays a 19th-century twelve-pane sash, while the end room has a 19th-century twelve-pane sash with a cambered brick arch at ground-floor level.

The interior reveals the main entrance leading into a passage with the stair tower at the rear. A dog-leg stair ascends from here; the upper flight retains turned balusters and a moulded handrail. A further flight leads to the attic, where an early 18th-century three-panelled door provides access. The roof space contains 19th-century trusses. At ground-floor level throughout, stone floors are laid beneath moulded ceiling beams, probably dating to the 18th century. The hall contains a fireplace with a wooden lintel and a cloam oven to the right, its interior finished with a domed stone. Two later ovens have been inserted into the fireplace. The front right scullery addition was equipped with a trough, water pump, and boiling copper, with a slate floor. At first-floor level, the front right room features an early 18th-century bolection-moulded chimneypiece with a pulvinated frieze and moulded mantel, later fitted with a 19th-century grate. Two-panelled doors appear at first-floor level.