Trebarvah Farmhouse Including Adjoining Stables To South East

Trebarvah Farmhouse Including Adjoining Stables to South East

Farmhouse and adjoining stables, dated 1652, remodelled and extended in the early to mid 19th century with later 19th century stable extensions. The building is constructed of painted granite rubble with a slurried scantle slate roof with gabled ends. Rendered axial stack to the left of centre and gable end stack to the right, both with granite caps; a red brick shaft to the stack appears in the rear outshut.

The plan consists of a 3-room arrangement with an outshut behind the right and centre sections and a single storey stable at the left end. The two right-hand rooms represent the original mid 17th century house. The left-hand room serves as the hall/kitchen with a large gable end stack, now axial in position. The right-hand room may originally have been unheated but now contains a gable end stack. The straight flight staircase between the two rooms is probably an early to mid 19th century insertion in the cross or through passage, contemporaneous with the addition of an unheated third room to the left and the single storey outshut behind the right and centre of the original house. The single storey stable at the left end is a later 19th century addition. An alternative interpretation suggests the original house had a 3-room and cross or through passage plan, with the lower left room and passage demolished and rebuilt in the early to mid 19th century as an unheated room without a passage, and the stair inserted between the hall and the inner right-hand room.

Externally, the building is two storeys with a nearly symmetrical 3-window range except for the doorway positioned to the right of centre. Window openings are widely spaced and small with slate cills. The first floor contains a late 19th century 9-pane sash to the right, a late 19th century 4-pane sash to the centre, and a 20th century window to the left. The ground floor has a 19th century 4-pane sash on either side of the doorway and a 20th century casement to the left. The doorway to the right of centre features a 19th or earlier stone rubble open-fronted porch with a slurried slate lean-to roof and a 19th century panelled inner door with the top panels bearing triangular heads. A very large granite trough adjoins to the right of the front of the house.

Adjoining to the left with a lower gable-ended roof is the single storey stables, which has a divided plank door to the left and a fixed 6-light window in the gable end.

The rear elevation shows a late 19th century first floor 9-pane sash to the right with a 19th century casement below. The lean-to outshut to the left has a plank door and small fixed-light window with 4 panes, and a large brick stack rises from the roof to the left.

Internally, a large granite fireplace in the hall/kitchen has chamfered jambs and lintel. The lintel bears a recessed panel carved with initials and date "W.G. over E 1652". In the right hand corner of the fireplace is an oven, blocked and removed when the left-hand room was built. The ground floor rooms feature 19th century bead-moulded ceiling joists. A 19th century straight stair is flanked by boarded partitions. The rear outshut contains a boiling copper at the base of the stack.

The first floor rooms are ceiled and the roof space is inaccessible.

Trebarvah was a holding of 56 acres and part of the Manor of Tucoys, the only manor in Constantine mentioned in the Domesday Book. In 1590 John Code held Trebavah as a free tenant of the manor of Tucoys. In 1842 it belonged to Cuthbert and William Tremayne.