Trecombe Farm Cottage

Trecombe Farm Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the 17th century with an 18th-century rear wing. It was restored in the late 20th century. The cottage is constructed of granite rubble with dressed granite quoins and lintels. It has an asbestos slate roof with red clay ridge tiles, hipped to the left and with a gable end to the right. A large granite rubble stack with a granite dripcourse is present on the right-hand gable end. The rear wing also has a hipped roof. The original plan of the main front range appears to have been a two-room layout, the larger room on the right being the hall/kitchen and featuring a large gable end fireplace with two ovens. The smaller room on the left may have initially been unheated. The central front entrance may have led directly to the larger room, or there may have been a cross-passage. An unheated, single-room wing at the rear, likely dating to the 18th century, is two storeys high. The ground floor of the main range is now a single room, and the rear wing has been subdivided. The front has an asymmetrical two-window facade, with windows to the left. Late 20th-century two-light casement windows are fitted, the ground floor windows having reused chamfered granite lintels. The central doorway has a chamfered three-centred arch and rough granite jambs. The rear wing also has casement windows and a 20th-century asbestos slate porch in the angle. A massive granite boulder is incorporated into the base of the wall on the right-hand gable end of the main range. Internally, the main range is now a large single room on the ground floor, with 20th-century exposed ceiling joists and a large fireplace on the right-hand end wall, featuring dressed granite jambs, a 20th-century timber lintel, and two stone ovens. The left end of the main range has a small fireplace with unchamfered granite jambs and lintel. The roof was not inspected, but it is said to have old pegged trusses. According to Charles Henderson’s history of Constantine, the building was referred to in connection with Trecombe Farmhouse as a “detached building” which, alongside Trecombe Farmhouse, "encloses the usual small court." It has also been suggested that the building may have functioned as a bakehouse or detached kitchen.