Trecarne And Garden Wall, Gate And Railings To Front

Trecarne and Garden Wall, Gate and Railings to Front

House with garden wall, gate and railings, dating to circa late 16th century. Built of stone rubble with a rag slate roof on the front slope and scantle slate roof on the rear slope, with gable ends. Stone rubble chimneys are present on the left-hand gable end and a gabled projecting stone rubble rear lateral hall stack on the right, with another stone rubble stack serving an outshot on the rear left.

The plan has been remodelled over time. The house probably originally comprised two or more rooms with a through passage. The kitchen occupied the lower end on the left, heated by a gable end stack with a cloam oven (now removed), while a large hall at the higher end on the right was heated by a projecting rear lateral stack. The extent of the house to the right is uncertain. A circa late 16th-century arch survives in the rear wall towards the higher end of the kitchen, with a similar arch in the left-hand gable end wall of the same room; these may have been reset. A dairy was added to the rear of the hall in circa late 17th century, and the two-storey outshot across the rear elevation was probably remodelled in circa late 18th century. This outshot contains a stair, positioned to the rear of the passage, which may occupy the site of an earlier 17th-century stair originally accommodated in a stair projection and subsequently remodelled in the late 18th century and again in the mid 19th century. A single-room extension was added to the left-hand gable end in circa early 20th century, set back from the front elevation, probably accompanied by partitioning of the left-hand kitchen with a corridor providing access to this new room.

The house is two storeys with an asymmetrical three-window front. Two large two-light granite mullion windows with hollow chamfered mullions and jambs and hood moulds flank a four-centred granite arch with deep cavetto moulding, rectangular surround and hood mould, with a 20th-century door beneath. The first floor features three three-light granite mullion windows arranged at different heights. The left-hand gable end wall of the earlier range contains a blocked segmental arch with hollow chamfer and run-out stop on the right-hand jamb; the jambs are granite and the arch head is greenstone. A blocked square window with granite surround originally lit the attic. An early 20th-century two-storey extension of stone rubble with slate roof is set back on the left.

The rear elevation remains relatively unspoilt, featuring a two-storey outshot with a blocked square granite window to the first floor at the left-hand end and an altered two-light granite window lighting the dairy on the rear right. A circa late 18th-century three-light casement window lights the kitchen on the rear left.

Internally, the through passage has been remodelled with left-hand partitions altered to form a wide hall. The kitchen to the left contains a large fireplace with a roughly cut granite lintel and roughly cut granite jambs; the right-hand jamb has been remodelled and the fireplace is partly blocked on the right-hand side. The hall to the right is a large room with a fireplace on the rear wall, now blocked and replaced with a 20th-century fireplace. Within the outshot on the rear left is a blocked granite chamfered segmental arch that originally led through into the kitchen. The roof, dating to circa 18th century, comprises nine bays with principals that are halved, lap-jointed and pegged at the apices and collars lapped and pegged onto the face of the principals. The purlins are slightly trenched.

A garden wall to the front features 19th-century iron railings and gate. The head of a cusped two-light circa 15th-century window has been reset in a barn to the north-west.

Trecarne was held by John Trecarne in 1469. In 1539 it was held in moieties by William Carnsew, gentleman, and in the early 17th century the entirety became vested in Richard Carnsew, gentleman, afterwards Sir Richard Carnsew of Bokelly, who died in 1629.