Tregew Farmhouse

Tregew Farmhouse is a building that has been converted into two houses. It dates from the early 17th century and was remodelled in the 19th century. The structure is made of slatestone rubble with granite jamb stones, quoins, and lintels. It has a dry Delabole slate roof with brick chimneys at the gable ends and an original external rubble lateral stack featuring a tapered granite top with moulded drips.

The farmhouse has a three-room through passage plan, with a rear kitchen wing and a staircase added to the lower end in the early 19th century. There is an outshut at the upper end, and the front wall has been partly rebuilt, incorporating some 17th-century moulded granite mullioned window frame stones as lintels for the ground floor openings at the upper end. The building is two storeys high and features a four-window south front, all with hornless 16-pane early 19th-century sash windows. Moulded lintels are present over the ground floor openings, with the left centre opening converted from a window to a door when the building was divided into two houses.

To the right of centre, there is an original granite doorway with early 17th-century ovolo and cavetto mouldings and diabolo stops. The house also has an open-fronted hipped-roof porch from the 18th century, with 20th-century glazed doors. Inside, the hall features a fine original splayed granite-framed fireplace with ovolo and cavetto mouldings and diabolo stops, along with a granite-coped slate rubble fireback. A similar but slightly smaller fireplace is found in the upper room. A later 17th-century ovolo-moulded door frame with one replaced jamb remains at the doorway between the upper end room and the rear outshut. Other interior features from the early 19th century include a dog-leg stair, a moulded arch at the rear of the passage, and a moulded plaster ceiling cornice in the lower room. The roof structure dates from the early 20th century. Additionally, there is a further moulded granite mullioned window fragment reused in a stile approximately 50 metres to the southeast. Tregew Farmhouse is notable for being one of the few farmhouses in this part of Cornwall that retains good early 17th-century architectural features.