Treswen Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from around the early 18th century, it is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob. The roof has a steep pitch, covered with slate; scantle slates are at the rear and rag slates on the front slope. Projecting stacks have brick shafts and set-offs, along with a cloam oven projection in the rear stack.

The farmhouse has a double-depth plan, with the front range containing a parlour on the left and a hall on the right, both heated by end stacks. The entrance, centrally located, opens directly into the hall, a feature seen in earlier 17th-century houses where the passage and hall merged, as it has here. The stair originally rose from the entrance hall, positioned at the rear of the ‘screen passage.’ Behind the hall is the kitchen, with its own rear wall stack, and a dairy located in an outshut to the rear of the parlour. This plan type, initially seen in the mid-17th century, continued into the early 18th century, and Treswen Farmhouse is a good, unaltered example. A later 19th-century outshut is located on the left-hand end.

The exterior is two storeys with a symmetrical four-window front. A large, 20th-century part-glazed porch with a 20th-century glazed inner door is centrally positioned, flanked by two 19th-century bay windows with pointed-head lights. The first floor has four-horned 16-pane sashes. A lean-to outshut on the left has a 19th-century glazed porch with margin glazing bars.

Inside, the hall on the right of the front range features a large fireplace with a chamfered granite lintel with run-out stops and stone rubble jambs. The cloam oven is marked with the name "Fishley." The floor joists are heavy and closely set, likely intended to support a plaster ceiling. The parlour has an early 18th-century cornice with heavy moulding. The rear kitchen wing has closely set chamfered floor joists, and the fireplace is partly blocked and heated by a Rayburn stove. Adjoining the 19th-century stair in the outshut are fragments of raised and fielded panelling, possibly reset from the parlour. A 18th-century door leads to the parlour, and there are several 18th-century doors on the first floor.