Treguth Inn

Treguth Inn

This building began as a farmhouse in the early 17th century and was later converted to an inn. It comprises a main house with a rear wing addition dating from the mid to late 17th century, with further alterations and additions made during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The structure is built of slate rubble and cob, rendered and painted, with a thatched roof. The main range has a gable end to the left, a half-hipped roof to the right, and a gable end to the rear wing on the left. The left gable end stack is of 20th-century brick with a modern shaft; an axial stack has a truncated shaft; and the stack serving the rear gable end has been removed.

The building follows a 3-room and passage plan. The lower end room occupies the left side and is heated from the gable end stack. The passage lies to the right, possibly originally a through passage; a straight stair of circa 19th-century date has been inserted here, and the partition wall at the lower end has been removed, probably in the 20th century. To the right is a room heated from the axial stack, adjoining the passage, and a further room at the end right, possibly originally unheated, which is built into the bank. The mid to late 17th-century addition behind the lower end room contained a single room heated from the rear gable end stack; the partition between this and the lower end room has been removed.

The exterior is 2 storeys on an asymmetrical front with a single window at first floor. The ground floor features an open-fronted porch with a pitched thatched roof and wooden benches to each side; the inner door is of planked timber, probably 18th century. On the left at ground floor is a 2-light 8-pane casement window of 19th-century date with slate cill and timber lintel. To the right are two 2-light 12-pane 19th-century casements with slate cills and timber lintels. At first floor, the central room contains a single 12-pane casement with a round-arched toplight of 19th-century date set within an eyebrow dormer. A 20th-century door is set at the end right. The right end, built into the bank, is single storey and has a 20th-century 2-light 3-pane casement with timber lintel. The left end features a 20th-century 2-light 8-pane casement at ground floor to the right of the set-back 2-storey rear wing.

The rear wing has two 20th-century 2-light 8-pane casements and one 20th-century 9-pane casement at ground floor. The first floor contains an eyebrow dormer with a 19th-century 2-light 6-pane casement with round-arched toplight. A single 9-pane casement at first floor to the right marks the rear gable end of the wing. A 20th-century single-storey addition with flat roof adjoins this. At the rear, multiple 20th-century additions of varied dates line the ground floor level, infilling the L-plan created by the rear wing. The main range's rear features a 19th-century 2-light 6-pane casement with slate cill and timber lintel.

The interior retains significant period features. At the entrance to the former passage, one ceiling beam survives on the left with mortices for a former screen partition separating it from the lower end room. The passage beams are chamfered with run-out stops. The lower end room has 19th-century ceiling beams and an end fireplace with a roughly hewn timber lintel and a cloam oven to the rear right fitted with a cast iron door. The room in the rear wing retains roughly hewn ceiling beams with chamfer detailing. The gable end fireplace has a reset timber lintel with chamfer and step stops. The fireplace serving the axial stack appears to have been blocked. At the time of survey in October 1987, the two rooms to the right and the first floor were not accessible for detailed inspection, and no roof trusses are visible at the wall-tops at first floor level.

20th-century additions at the rear connect the main house to a range of outbuildings, which are not included in this listing.