Trevider Farmhouse Including Front Garden Walls

Trevider Farmhouse, including its front garden walls, dates to 1679, built for Oliver and Susan Pender, as indicated by the initials on the datestone. It was remodelled in the 18th century. The farmhouse is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings, and has grouted scantle slate roofs. It features an original dressed granite chimney with moulded cornices over the right-hand gable end, and a later brick chimney over a cross wall towards the left (likely the original gable end). The building also has a brick chimney over the left-hand gable end. Cast-iron gutters run along slightly projecting eaves.

The plan is now a three-room long range with a two-room deep cottage to the left, which was added probably in the 18th or early 19th century to the original two-room plan house on the right. The original house was remodelled in the 18th century, and its front wall was rebuilt at that time. The 18th-century layout includes a parlour on the left and a wider kitchen on the right, with an entrance hall between. Behind the entrance hall is a small, unheated room. At a right angle, mid-way to the original rear wall, is a small wing containing a circa-late 19th-century staircase, replacing a 17th or 18th-century stair projection, which was extended at the rear to provide a service room with a chamber over when the present stair was inserted.

The two-storey front has a regular six-window arrangement with original 18th-century openings. To the left is a two-window front cottage with its doorway on the right, and to the right, the original house has a four-window front with its doorway located under the second-from-left first-floor window. A window to the right of this window is blocked with slate. There is a circa-early 19th century flush-beaded four-panel door with an overlight. A datestone carved with “1679” in relief is set to the left of the doorway. The front has circa-early 19th century 16-pane hornless sash windows, many with old glass. The right-hand gable end has an original 17th-century chamfered window opening on the left, and a coat of arms featuring a fleur-de-lis. The rear elevation has remained largely unaltered since the 19th century.

The interior retains a complete 17th-century nine-bay roof structure with morticed apices, halved dovetailed collars, and trenched purlins. There is a ceiling cornice belonging to a former principal chamber ceiling visible in the roof space, along with some 17th-century chamfered ceiling beams with ogee stops. Other 18th-century features include a borrowed light to the pantry (middle room) with heavy glazing bars and a round-head fanlight head, and a pair of three-panelled doors at the entrance to the parlour, with detailing matching that of their top panels.