Trudgwell Farmhouse

Trudgwell Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from shale rubble with granite quoins, sills, jambstones, and lintels. The roof is hipped and covered with scantle slate, featuring reused handmade crested clay ridge tiles from the 17th or 18th century. There are brick chimneys over the side walls, a scantle slated lean-to on the right, and a brick chimney over the gable end of a single-storey former shippon that is set back on the far right.

The farmhouse has a shallow double depth plan, consisting of three rooms wide, including a single-storey integral dairy on the right. The large hearth is located in the kitchen on the left, with a parlour to the right of the middle and a cross passage between the kitchen and parlour leading to the stairs. There is a shallow service room behind the kitchen, and the shallow rooms behind the parlour and dairy have been converted into a wide axial passage that connects to a shippon attached at the rear right, which has been later converted into a back kitchen with a large fireplace.

The building is two storeys high and features a nearly symmetrical two-window east front, which is wider at the left end due to the large kitchen stack and has an extra bay for the dairy on the right. The doorway is centrally located in relation to the fenestration of the two-storey part of the house and features a four-panel door with an early 20th-century porch/conservatory. The windows for both the house and dairy are original 16-pane hornless sashes.

The interior has seen little alteration since the 19th century, retaining features such as a stick baluster stair, some two-panel doors, some slate flag floors, and a ventilated screen at the back of the dairy with a lattice ventilated door. This farmhouse presents an unusual variation of a 19th-century farmhouse plan, with an internal dairy and adjoining shippon, both of which have survived largely unchanged since their construction.