Trethewey Farmhouse

ST ERVAN SW 97 SW 4/172 Trethewey Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Probably late C18 or early C19 with some circa mid C19 alterations. Slate rubble, right-hand west end partly rendered. Grouted scantle slate roof with red clay ridge tiles. Brick stack over right-hand gable end, and brick stack over front and back of left-hand gable have rebuilt brick shaft. Plan: Double depth plan with shallow service rooms at the back. The 2 principal front rooms are about the same size, each heated from a gable end stack. The central entrance passage leads to a staircase and dairy behind the right-hand room and larger kitchen behind the left-hand room. Late in the C19 porches were added to the front and rear entrances of the passages. Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window south front. The 3 small openings on the first floor have late C19 4-pane sashes and slate cills, the 2 larger ground floor windows have flat red brick arches and slate cills, the left-hand with original 16-pane sash, the right-hand a late C19 4-pane sash is only slightly larger than the first floor windows. The central doorway has a late C19 4-panel door and a late C19 glazed wooden gabled porch with a wooden finial. The rear elevation has late C19 sashes and casements and a central late C19 red brick porch. Interior: Virtually unaltered since the C19. All internal partitions are made of vertical planks and the C19 4-panel doors survive; the ceilings have exposed joists. The front left hand room has a C20 tiled chimney-piece and the right hand room has a C20 range inserted. The straight staircase in the rear stairhall has stick balusters, the lower part of the balustrade has been taken out. The panelled doors on the first floor are intact.

Listing NGR: SW9038672150