Treludick

Treludick is a house dating from the late 16th century, possibly remodelled in 1641 for the Baron family, with fine late 17th or early 18th century panelling. It is built of stone rubble with a slate roof, gable ends, and stone rubble and granite stacks with moulded granite caps positioned axially, to the front lateral side, and at the ends.

The original plan is uncertain, but the main range contains a 3-room layout with an original through passage. The entrance passes through a 17th century 2-storey porch positioned left of centre, leading into a wide passage. This passage was blocked to the rear in the late 19th century with a stair in an outshut. A stone rubble cross wall on the lower left of the passage runs to the apex and contains the flue of the chamber fireplace above. A 17th century screen occupies the higher side of the passage. The lower end was heated by what is probably originally an end stack. The hall to the right is heated by a front lateral stack, with a thick cross wall extending to the apex between the hall and inner room, containing the flue of a chamber fireplace. The inner room beyond is heated by an end stack. The roof above the hall and inner room appears to have been raised in the 17th century, possibly coinciding with the house's remodelling.

A 17th century cross wing is attached to the lower left end, containing two service rooms with a kitchen to the rear and a dairy in the front wing. To the rear of the inner room is a 17th century 2-room wing heated by end stacks. Around the 19th century an outshut was added across the rear of the lower room of the main range, and a late 19th century stair occupies an outshut adjoining the rear of the passage. The outshut to the rear of the hall contains a butler's pantry on the ground floor and a corridor on the first floor, connecting the stair to the first floor chambers and rear right-hand wing. This outshut probably represents a remodelling of a 17th century stair projection originally positioned to the rear on the lower side of the hall. In the late 17th or early 18th century the interior was remodelled with the addition of fine quality panelling and plasterwork.

The exterior presents two storeys with an asymmetrical 1:2:1:2 window front. The entrance, positioned left of centre, is set within a gabled 2-storey porch featuring a 4-centred granite arch with bar stops, a 19th century studded door, and a 2-light mullion window above. To the left is a 4-light granite mullion window with the king mullion remaining but flanking mullions removed, with two 20th century 12-pane sashes on the first floor. To the right, the projecting front lateral hall stack has a narrow sash directly to its left and a double 20th century sash to its right lighting the hall, with a double 12-pane sash beyond lighting the inner room. The first floor has double 12-pane sashes. In the left-hand wing, the dairy window has a lattice grid, and a 20th century 12-pane sash appears on the first floor in the end wall of the wing.

The interior contains a wide passage with a 17th century screen on its higher right side featuring scratch-moulded framing and raised and fielded panels. A late 19th century stair to the rear is lit by a round-headed stair window. The lower end has a 19th century timber surround and later grate to the fireplace, with a circa 18th century bench along the front wall. The hall contains a late 17th or early 18th century bolection-moulded chimney-piece, dado rail, and heavy moulded cornice. A 17th century moulded doorframe with ornate bar stops bearing incised patterns appears in the rear wall, possibly originally leading to a stair projection, with a similar doorframe between the hall and inner room. The inner room displays complete stained and grained bolection-moulded panelling with a bolection-moulded chimney-piece and pedimented doorcases, heavy moulded cornice, and a circa late 17th century plaster ceiling with heavy ovolo-moulded ribs terminating in moulded oak-leaves. A cellar in the rear wing contains unmoulded heavy floor joists. An 18th century back stair with heavy balusters and square newels is present. The service wing to the front left has a blocked kitchen fireplace with a large cloam-oven projection on the rear and a 17th century chamfered square-headed doorframe with straight-cut stops between the kitchen and dairy. On the first floor, the chambers above the hall and inner room have bolection-moulded chimney-pieces and ovolo-moulded doorcases with scroll stops, plus reset 17th century panelling in the rear wing. Several 17th and 18th century cupboards with original hinges of butterfly, cockshead, and H patterns are present throughout. The roof structure above the main range is not accessible. The roof structure above the hall and inner room appears to have been raised in the 17th century, although the remains of a truncated blade from an earlier truss survive above the hall chamber. The roof structure above the front left-hand wing dates from circa 17th century with halved, lap-jointed, and pegged apices and collars.