Trewirgie House With Attached Outbuildings

A house dating to the early 19th century, situated on Trewirgie Road in Redruth West. The house is constructed of granite ashlar with a scantle slate roof, and rendered chimneys. It is based on a square plan, facing southwest. A service wing is attached to the southeast corner, and a rear courtyard is enclosed by this wing, a stable block on one side, a long office wing attached to the northwest corner of the house, and a high wall closing the fourth side.

The main front has two storeys and a 3x3 bay arrangement. A central, single-storey, pedimented porch provides access, featuring a wide round-headed outer doorway with an impost band that extends around the head, double-panelled doors with glazing, and a large fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The first bay on the left has blind windows on both floors; the third bay on the right has a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor, and a 12-pane sash window above. A narrow, unglazed sash window is located on the first floor to the left of the porch. The roof is hipped, with projecting eaves and chimneys on the front and side walls. The office wing, continuing to the right, features widely spaced 12-pane sashed windows.

The northwest front, facing the garden, is symmetrical, with a blind window at ground floor between two tripartite sash windows, and three 12-pane sashes on the first floor. All windows have plain reveals. The rear wall and the projecting, slightly lower service wing have 30-pane and 16-pane sashed windows, with the service wing being slate-hung on the first floor.

The interior includes restored plaster cornices, various Victorian fireplaces (some original and some restored), formerly separate drawing and dining rooms now joined by double doors, a dogleg staircase with an open string, stick balusters, and a wreathed curtail. Service rooms are unusually well-preserved, including front and back kitchens with red tiled floors and a small buffet with Dutch tiles. A wire-operated bell system is present on both floors.

The rear courtyard is paved with pebbles and features a wooden-clad pump in the centre, enclosed by a high rubble wall with ridged coping. A doorway is located at the west end. Attached to the east side of the courtyard, facing south, is a symmetrical coachman’s cottage, two storeys and three bays in height, with a central doorway and 12-pane sashed windows on the ground floor, and 9-pane sashes above (the central window replacing a former loading door). The roof is half-hipped.