Pill Farmhouse And Garden Wall

Pill Farmhouse and its garden wall, dating from around the 1840s, feature slatestone rubble walls supported by granite lintels on granite corbels and granite sills. The farmhouse has a Spanish slate roof over the front and rear wings, and a polygonal scantle slate roof over a single-storey room at the northeast corner. The building has stone rubble chimneys at the gable ends, with one chimney on the east side over an external stone stack. The L-shaped plan includes two rooms at the front, a rear kitchen wing, a staircase in the angle, and a polygonal pantry and entrance vestibule at the northeast corner of the wing.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a two-window south front that does not have a doorway. The ground floor features wide openings with paired 12-pane 19th-century hornless sash windows, while the first floor has 16-pane 19th-century hornless sash windows. A projecting stone wallplate runs under the eaves. The east entrance front has a 12-pane fixed light window at the first floor of the left gable end. The chimney breast is designed in three stages, topped with a hipped roof over a large oven projection. Stone wallplates are linked to copings under the verge, creating broken pedimented gables.

The wing includes a wide three-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned window with original eight-pane wooden casements, and a similar two-light half-dormer window above, with the dormer gable styled as an open pediment. To the right of the entrance doorway, which has a 20th-century door and sidelights, is another similar two-light window. The interior remains simple and largely unaltered, featuring an original stick baluster dog-leg staircase and a large hearth in the kitchen. The garden wall is constructed of slatestone with slatestone coping, except for a section that has wooden dowel fencing. This farmhouse is one of five houses on the Trelissick Estate that share similar architectural features.