Trekenning House

Trekenning House is a farmhouse, now a house, likely originating in the mid-17th century and substantially enlarged and remodelled around the early 18th century. Later alterations and additions occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of stone rubble, rendered at the front, with granite dressings. The roof is largely of scantle slate, with some asbestos slate, ridge tiles, and gable and hipped ends. There are gable and axial stacks, with rendered shafts.

Originally, the house likely had a different orientation, but an early 18th-century remodelling created a symmetrical facade featuring a granite Doric portico with a cornice and blocking courses. A central entrance hall, with a rear staircase, was formed, flanked by two large rooms to the front. A service wing extends to the rear left. A large, single-room plan addition was made to the right end in the mid to late 19th century, accompanied by internal remodelling in a Gothic style.

The two-story front facade is symmetrical, with a 2:1:2 bay arrangement. All windows are 20th-century casements. The ground floor is composed of a 5-light, single, and 2-light window arrangement symmetrically, with the first floor featuring a sequence of 5, 2, 1, 2, and 5-light windows. A modillion cornice tops the facade, with a small central gable containing a rendered stack rising from its apex. A 19th-century addition is set back to the right, also with a modillion cornice and a 5-light window on each floor. The left end has an external stack with four square pigeon holes and an 19th-century 16-pane sash window at first floor.

The rear wing, likely dating back to the early 18th century, has a ground floor window with granite voussoirs and a first-floor 18th-century 12-pane sash with a timber lintel. An attic window is a horizontal 9-pane sash. A straight joint joins it to a 19th-century kitchen wing on the left, featuring a door and a 16-pane sash window on both ground and first floors. A single-story dairy was added to the left end in the late 19th century. The right end has 20th-century French and sash windows, and three windows at first floor.

The rear of the main range has three hipped roofs over the rear rooms. Inside, the central block features an 18th-century open-well staircase with turned and knopped balusters and a moulded handrail. One wall in the rear left room retains early 18th-century fielded panelling. The entrance hall and some first-floor rooms were remodeled in the mid-19th century with Gothic pointed arched doors. Some 18th-century 2-panelled doors remain. Two trusses in the roof are of 17th-century origin, spanning the range over the entrance hall from front to rear, exhibiting cambered collars halved to the principal rafters and roughly hewn timber.