Trevorrow Farmhouse, Front Garden Walls And Gate Piers

Trevorrow Farmhouse, with its front garden walls and gate piers, dates to the 17th century, with later additions in the 18th and 19th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of granite ashlar and granite rubble, with granite dressings, and has a gabled scantle slate roof with brick chimneys at the gable ends and over a central cross wall. The building now has an irregular L-shaped plan, which likely began as a three-room and through-passage layout. In the 18th century, the front wall of the hall and an inner room, on the right side, was extended to create two parlours (a small parlour to the left and a larger parlour to the right), separated by a cross passage. A second stair was inserted partly within the original 17th-century stair position, at the rear right of the through passage. A one-room service wing was added in the 19th century, extending at right angles behind the left-hand room. The original 17th-century hall was likely situated to the right of the passage, with a parlour on the left, featuring a large pair of three-light mullioned windows at the front, along with another window adjacent to the gable-end fireplace. The hall was likely floored over, as evidenced by a blocked first-floor window on the rear wall. The front facade has two storeys and six window bays overall: the two-window front of the earlier 17th-century section is set back on the left, with a more regular, four-window, granite ashlar front on the right. The 17th-century front features a pair of wide, chamfered windows in the centre and to the left, each with stooling for two mullions, and a chamfered doorway to the right with dice stops. A 20th-century porch now stands in front of the doorway. The first-floor openings are later remodellings, likely from the 18th or 19th century. The 18th-century front section has a doorway to the left, with a late 19th-century panelled door within a circa late 19th-century glazed box porch. Four-paned, horned sashes are of a similar date. The rear elevation has four 17th-century windows, two of which are blocked, including a mid-floor stair window with central mullions; a ground-floor (hall) window with stooling for a central mullion; and a narrow first-floor window. A possibly 17th-century doorway is present, although it has not been inspected. The left-hand gable end has blocked 17th-century ground and first-floor windows. Internally, many 17th-century features have been hidden or removed. Surviving 18th-century features include moulded plaster cornices in the two parlours and passage, as well as some ovolo-moulded architraves. Otherwise, the internal features are mostly from the 19th century, based on inspection. The first-floor and roof structure remain uninspected. Rubble and cob walls partially enclose a rectangular garden at the front. The right-hand wall is slate-coped. The gateway has granite monolith piers, and a mounting block is located inside the gateway on the left.