Tregreenwell Farmhouse, Barns Adjoining To South, Outbuildings Adjoining To West And Garden Wall To North East

Tregreenwell Farmhouse is a listed building comprising the farmhouse itself, adjoining barns to the south, outbuildings to the west, and a garden wall to the north-east.

The farmhouse dates from the late 16th century or earlier, with additions from the early 17th century and a second range added in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with a slate roof featuring gable ends and a gable end to the rear wing. The building has a brick axial stack to the right of centre, a brick end stack to the right, and a stone rubble rear lateral hall stack adjoining a side lateral stack with brick shaft, incorporated in a lean-to outshot across the rear.

The original plan is uncertain. By the mid-19th century the house was divided into three separate dwellings: the lower end on the left formed a single-room dwelling, the through passage, hall and rear wing formed a second house, and a third dwelling of double-depth plan was added to the right on the higher side of the hall. The lower end is heated by an end stack with probable remains of a blocked stair beside the fireplace. A partition between the passage and lower end was rebuilt in the mid to late 20th century. The through passage remains largely intact with early 17th-century doorframes to the front and rear, though the thin partition on the higher right-hand side may have been remodelled to enlarge the entrance hall.

In the early 17th century, a single-room wing was added to the rear of the lower side of the hall, accessed from the rear of the enlarged entrance hall. The ground floor room is used as a dairy, with the first floor heated by a gable-end stack with an ovolo-moulded doorframe and 17th-century two-panel door. Around the 18th century, a probable single-storey outshot extension was added to the rear of the higher side of the hall, abutting the earlier 17th-century rear wing. This kitchen range is heated by a side lateral stack, possibly reorientated from its original position intended to heat the ground floor of the 17th-century wing. In the mid-19th century, a double-depth range was added on the higher right-hand side of the hall, possibly on the site of an earlier inner room. This 19th-century range comprises two front rooms heated by end stacks, a central framed stair, and service rooms to the rear. The lean-to outshot to the rear of the hall was partly remodelled and re-roofed, possibly contemporary with this addition.

Externally, the farmhouse is two storeys with an asymmetrical 1:3:2 window front and a lower roof over the lower end on the left. The left section has a 19th-century tripartite sash on the ground floor and a 19th-century 16-pane sash in a gabled half-dormer above. The central range features a 19th-century six-panel door in an early 17th-century ovolo-moulded and ogee-stopped timber doorframe, a one-light granite chamfered window frame, a 19th-century tripartite sash with wide timber lintel, and a datestone inscribed HH1801 to the right. Above are a 16-pane sash, an early 19th-century 20-pane sash, and a horned 16-pane sash. A straight joint marks the division between the central range and the mid-19th-century extension to the right, which has a symmetrical two-window front with 16-pane hornless sashes and a 19th-century six-panel door with a reused early 17th-century granite chamfered lintel above.

The rear elevation shows the rear door of the through passage with an early 17th-century doorframe with granite chamfered jambs and lintels and straight-cut stops. There is a timber two-light mullion window to the rear of the lower end and a three-light timber mullion window in the side wall of the rear wing with ovolo-moulded mullions on the inner face, though the lintel and cills have been replaced.

Interior details include the lower end on the left, now partly derelict, with remains of two chamfered floor joists with mortice holes for cross beams. A large chamfered granite lintel serves the fireplace with a cloam oven, and a lintel to a blocked opening on the left of the fireplace probably indicates a blocked newel stair. The passage floor is of granite and slate flags. The entrance to the rear wing has an early 17th-century ovolo-moulded doorframe and an 18th-century two-panel door. The hall fireplace has a 20th-century grate with floor joists renewed in the early 20th century. A reused 18th-century doorframe with ovolo-moulded jambs was inserted in the 1930s between the central range and the 19th-century addition. The first floor room of the rear wing contains an early 17th-century ovolo-moulded doorframe and 17th-century two-panel door, with a granite hollow-chamfered fireplace in the gable end.

The roof structure above the hall is only partly visible but appears to date from the late 16th century or earlier, with threaded purlins and probably morticed apices to principals. The roof above the rear wing is 20th-century, as is the roof structure with one circa 18th-century truss to the lower end.

A circa 18th-century stone rubble barn with a galvanised roof is attached to the left-hand gable end, projecting forward from the house to form an overall L-shaped plan. Stone rubble steps rise to the first floor in the front gable end. A possibly reused two-light granite mullion window is located to the rear. A further barn of stone rubble with a slate roof lies to the rear left, with single-storey outbuildings to the rear. These outbuildings have thick stone rubble walls with several pieces of dressed granite, probably resited. The roof structures are of early 19th-century and later date.

The garden wall to the front right of the house is overgrown but is believed to contain several beeboles. A mounting block adjoins the wall.