Trecombe Farm Cottage

SW 72 NW CONSTANTINE

9/52 Trecombe Farm Cottage 2.10.87

GV II

Cottage. Probably C17 with an C18 rear wing. Restored in late C20. Granite rubble, with dressed granite quoins and lintels. Asbestos slate roof with red clay ridge tiles, hipped to the left and with a gable end to the right with a large granite rubble stack with a granite dripcourse. The rear wing has a hipped roof. Plan: The main front range appears to have been a 2-room plan, the larger right hand room the hall/kitchen with a large gable end fireplace with 2 ovens and the smaller left hand room may have been unheated originally. The front entrance which is to the left of centre possibly lead directly into the larger right hand room or there may have been a cross-passage. The 2-storey unheated 1-room plan wing at the rear is probably an C18 addition. The ground floor of the main range is now one room and the rear wing has been subdivided. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the windows disposed towards the left. Late C20 2-light casements with glazing bars, ground floor with reused chamfered granite lintels. The central doorway has a chamfered 3-centred arch and rough granite jambs. The rear wing also has late C20 casements and a C20 asbestos slate hung porch in the angle. The right hand gable end of the main range has a massive granite boulder incorporated into the base of the wall. Interior: The main range is now one large room on the ground floor with C20 exposed ceiling joists and a very large fireplace in the right hand end wall with dressed granite jambs, a C20 timber lintle and 2 stone ovens. The left hand end of the main range has a small fireplace with unchamfered granite jambs and lintel. Roof was not inspected, however, it is said to have old pegged trusses Henderson refers to the building in connection with Trecombe Farmhouse qv as "a detached building" which with Trecombe Farmhouse "encloses the usual small court". Furthermore it has also been suggested that the building may have been a bakehouse or detached kitchen. Source: Charles Henderson. A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall. Page 168.

Listing NGR: SW7610329682