Treworra Barton Including Barn, Horse Engine House And Cartshed On South West

Treworra Barton, Davidstow

A house with attached barn, horse engine house and cartshed, dating from the late 16th century or earlier, with extensions added in the early and mid-19th century.

The building is constructed of stone rubble with granite quoins, and is roofed with rag slate. A granite moulded axial stack sits to the left of centre, with rendered brick stacks serving a rear lateral outshot and the front wing on the right.

The original plan is uncertain, but the house likely contained at least three rooms on a cross or through passage plan, taking advantage of ground that slopes down slightly to the left. The earlier range comprises the hall and inner room to the left, with a cross wing to the right. The hall was heated by the axial stack on the higher side, with thick cross walls on both the higher and lower sides. The inner room may originally have been unheated, though the chamber above it features an early 17th-century fireplace backed onto the hall stack. A stair projection to the rear of the hall fireplace provided access from the hall to the chamber above the inner room; this was remodelled in the 19th century and partly incorporated into a late 18th or early 19th-century outshot at the rear of the hall and passage. The passage itself has been altered, probably widened with a stair inserted, and the two-room cross wing was either remodelled or partly rebuilt in the 19th century. A barn was added to the rear of the cross wing in the late 18th or early 19th century, followed by a horse engine house attached to its right-hand side in the early 19th century, and an open-fronted cartshed to the rear of the barn in the mid-19th century.

The front elevation is two storeys high and asymmetrical, with four windows. To the left, there is a three-light mullion window lighting the inner room, a 20th-century door, a three-light mullion hall window with a hoodmould and the initials 'RK B' carved in the stops, and a 20th-century door to the entrance on the right. The first floor above displays a 20th-century one-light casement, a 12-pane horned sash, an early 19th-century four-over-eight pane hornless sash, and a 20th-century two-light casement above the entrance. The gable end of the cross wing projects to the front right, with 20th-century sashes on the ground and first floor in its left-hand side wall.

The barn to the rear of the cross wing has a polygonal horse engine house attached to its right-hand side and an open cartshed to the rear supported on granite posts.

The passage was widened in the 19th century with a stair inserted to the rear, and the cross wing has either been remodelled or rebuilt during this period. The entrance to the hall on the left-hand side of the passage is framed by a granite chamfered lintel and jambs with pyramid stops. The hall fireplace has a chamfered timber lintel and chamfered granite jambs with a cloam oven. The stair to the rear of the fireplace was rebuilt in the 19th century. A hollow chamfered granite doorframe with a slightly cambered lintel separates the inner room from the hall. The inner room contains a 19th-century fireplace, possibly an insertion. The fireplace in the chamber above the inner room features a chamfered granite lintel and jambs with diagonal stops.

The roof structure was replaced in the early 19th century. The roof structure above the inner room was not inspected during the survey.