Trevego

SX 15 NW ST WINNOW

6/146 Trevego

GV II*

Dower house, now farmhouse built in late C16 for widow of Sir William Mohun who purchased Boconnoc in 1579. Rubblestone with roof of C19 slates with gabled ends with asymmetrical gable end to front projecting wing. Massive stone square stacks on gable ends and projecting wing to rear. Plan altered to form 3 room with cross passage and staircase in projecting wing to rear. Later staircase added and house extended to rear in mid-C19. 2 storeys and attic, asymmetrical 4 window east front with projecting wing to right and centre part set slightly forward. Straight joint towards left-hand gable end. Ground floor with C20 3-light casement with glazing bars to right of early C20 plank door. 2- and 3-light C20 casement to right. Entrance door at junction with projecting gabled wing with C20 porch with plank door and hipped roof. 3-light C20 casement in projecting wing. Above four 3-light C20 casements with glazing bars. Interior ground floor rooms altered. Doorcases flanking staircase on north side with ovolo moulded frame and scroll stops with small pyramids at bases. Large fireplace on left-hand (south) gable end, partly blocked. Continues across full length of gable end. Room on north originally panelled with fine plasterwork. Framed staircase from ground to first floor. First to attic, mid to late C17 oak staircase with closed string, ovolo moulded and stopped square newels with flat bun finials, vase turned balusters and heavy moulded handrail. In first floor rooms on south, elaborately plastered ceiling, circa early C17 divided by plasterboard partition. Ribbed layout with figures in deep relief holding garlands of flowers and surrounded by ovals of foliage. Simple bolection moulded fireplace with panelled upper section continuing up to cornice and framing a painted board with text'strive for the truth unto death, and defend justice for thy life, and the Lord God shall fight for thee against thine enemies'. Central first floor room now partly divided. C17 doorcase with ovolo moulded frame and scroll stops. 2 panelled door. Coved plasterwork frieze with intertwined foliage and shells, circa C17. Fireplace surmounted by plasterwork heraldic arms of Hawkey family who were granted arms in 1656. (Possibly slightly pre-dates granting). In first floor room on north, small deep niche on rear wall with painted head and granite shelf. Roof of 10 bays with cambered chamfered collars, side pegged and pegged at apex. Roof timbers to projecting gable end to front covered over. House passed from Mohun family to Knapman family and then by marriage to Hawkeys. Barton Farm Information from tenant. Plasterwork and staircase illustrated in H Lander, House and Cottage Interiors, 1982 p.62 and 83.

Listing NGR: SX1383259863