Trevethan House

ST EVAL SW 87 SE 3/205 Trevethan House (formerly included as Trevethan)

GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa mid C19. Dressed slate. Rag slate hipped roof with bitumen coating. 2 dressed slate axial stacks. Asbestos slate roof to rear wing with gabled end. Plan: Overall L-shaped plan. 3 principal rooms in the main range with the entrance hall between the centre room and left end room. The entrance hall leads to the stair well behind the consequently smaller central room. The kitchen is in an integral wing behind the right hand room which extends as a row of service cottages. There is a cellar under the left hand room of the main range where the ground level is lower. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. 1:2:1 window west front, symmetrical except that the door is in the left of centre bay. Large pointed arch window openings with dressed slate arches concrete cills and mid to late C19 pointed arch 8-pane sashes with horns. The doorway to left of centre in a similar opening has vertically panelled and studded doors and fanlight is a stopped and chamfered doorframe; C20 outer doors. Pair of hipped dormers, each with a 16-pane sash, the sash to the left is a replacement. Similar dormer at each hipped end and similar windows to those at front in the end walls, one on each floor. The rear elevation has a pointed arch rear doorway and window above. The rear kitchen wing to the left is much altered. Interior: The interior is severely plain and without moulded plaster ceiling cornices but the left hand room and small central room have mid C19 marble chimney- pieces with console brackets. Most of the internal joinery is intact including panelled doors and an oak open-well open-string staircase with thick stick balusters and square newels. The hall floor is paved in slate. The house is said to have been built for one Cobblestone Cross. (Information from the owner).

Listing NGR: SW8583271820