North Treveneague Farmhouse

ST HILARY SW 53 SW 1/127 North Treveneague Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Painted rubble with granite dressings. Scantle slate roof with brick chimneys over the gable ends. Plan: unusually deep double-depth plan: 2 reception rooms to the front plus butler's pantry adjoining the right of the left hand room (probably dining room) and entrance hall between butler's pantry and right hand room (probably parlour); at rear middle a stair hall with main stair, and service stair on its left; left of the service stair a large kitchen and right of the main stair a large dairy or pantry. On the left of the house is a circa mid C19 lean-to former wash house and store (now kitchen); at the rear is a later large lean-to porch and adjoining the rear right-hand corner is a mounting block. Exterior : 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south-east front slightly wider to left. Late C19 or C20 4-pane sashes and C20 door. Original distyle Doric porch with granite columns on square plinths, rectangular fielded panels to the frieze of the entablature and consoles with acanthus detail behind. Rear has original windows to most openings : 24-pane hornless sash to tall stair window; 20 pane hornless sash to ground and first floor, right, and 2-light casement behind original stanchions to dairy, left. Wide roof dormer over to light former servants quarters in attic. Interior : virtually unaltered since built with original carpentry and joinery including stairs, doors and archways to stair hall and landing.

Listing NGR: SW5473032618