Trecombe Farmhouse Including Front Garden Wall Immediately To South East

Trecombe Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse of probable late 16th century or earlier date, with some early 17th-century work and extended probably in the 18th century. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings and is limewashed at the front, with an asbestos slate roof with gable ends. The higher left-hand gable end has granite coping with scrolled ends. All the gables have granite ashlar stacks with moulded weathered caps, and there is a similar projecting rear lateral stack.

The building follows a 3-room and cross-passage plan. The lower end to the right is a cross-wing projecting at the front with a front gable-end stack heating the ground floor room and a rear gable-end stack heating the chamber above. The hall has a rear lateral stack, and the inner room has a large fireplace in the left gable-end stack. Evidence suggests the lower end cross-wing existed before the main range: its walls are noticeably thicker, and the granite 4-centred arch doorway on the first floor at the junction of the two ranges has led to speculation that the cross-wing was originally a small first-floor hall. In 1715 the inner room fireplace was reduced. Probably also in the 18th century, a straight staircase was inserted into the passage and an unheated outshut was added to the lower side of the cross-wing. Recently (survey 1987) the partition between the hall and inner room was removed.

Exterior: The building is 2 storeys with an asymmetrical 3-window front and a projecting gable-ended cross-wing at the lower right end. Most windows at the front are late 18th or early 19th-century 16-pane sashes, except for the centre first-floor sash, which is a 20th-century replacement, and the early 19th-century 12-pane sash on the first floor of the inner face of the lower end cross-wing. The window below has a chamfered granite frame with missing mullion and a hoodmould embedded into the front wall of the main range. The first-floor windows have slate cills; the ground floor windows have granite cills and lintels. The cross-passage front doorway immediately to the left of the wing has a chamfered granite frame with a 3-centred arch and convex stops. The higher left-hand gable end has a small blocked hollow chamfered granite window frame on the first floor to the left.

The rear elevation has a projecting lateral stack with slate weathered set-offs, a 19th-century 6-pane first-floor sash to the flight, and a 2-light chamfered granite window frame to the left with a label and stops carved with sorts of quatrefoils. The mullion has been removed and a late 18th or early 19th-century fixed-light 9-pane window inserted. The slightly projecting gable end of the cross-wing to the left has a late 18th or early 19th-century 16-pane sash on the ground floor and a large 20th-century 2-light 16-pane casement to the left of the first floor. The lean-to outshut on the lower left side of the cross-wing has a late 19th-century plank door at the back and a late 19th-century 2-light casement with glazing bars; a similar casement appears on the lower left side of the outshut.

The listing includes the granite rubble walls immediately to the south east, which enclose a small front garden. There is a doorway with a chamfered granite frame, pyramid stops and a straight head, probably a reused doorframe.

Interior: The hall and inner room are now one space. The inner room contains a large chamfered granite gable-end fireplace with the left-hand jamb moved inwards, probably in 1715—a date inscribed on the plaster on the lintel. The rear lateral hall fireplace is blocked. In the hall is an early 18th-century cupboard with a 6-panel door. The lower end room has closely spaced roughly chamfered cross beams without stops; 3 have been replaced. The fireplace is in the front gable wall and is blocked with a 20th-century range, but a stone oven remains behind. The doorway on the lower right-hand side of the passage has a 17th-century wooden frame with ovolo and hollow moulding. A straight stair has been inserted into the passage. At the top of the stairs to the right, into the chamber over the lower room, is a heavy granite chamfered doorframe with a 4-centred arch and pyramid stops. It is not rebated for a door but has a 17th-century moulded plank door with wrought-iron hinges. The lower room chamber has a panelled cupboard door dated 1704.

Roof: The roof space was not inspected; however, the feet of straight principals are exposed in the first-floor rooms.

Trecombe was in the small manor of Treworval.