The Manor House, 10-12 Trevia, Camelford

The Manor House, 10-12 Trevia, Camelford

This is a farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings. The core of the building dates from the late 16th or early 17th century and has been extended to the north-east and probably to the south-west. It is built of rubble stone with slate roofs and rubble stone stacks. The original roof structures do not survive. A number of the ground-floor openings have granite surrounds, and the timber window frames are all 20th century. The building is aligned on a south-west/north-east axis, with the entrance front facing north-west. The current division between the two dwellings is positioned immediately to the south-west of the original entrance.

Exterior

The two-storey building is now seven bays wide. To the right of centre, the original low doorway has been partially filled to form a window, but the wide stone jambs remain, with a chamfer following the jambs and lintel. To the left is a horizontal window opening, enlarged during the 17th century, with a recessed chamfered surround; this has been altered to provide a doorway with the left part of the sill removed to accommodate the door. Further left is a window opening widened in the 1970s, the original chamfered lintel and sill having been reset; this section of wall has been rebuilt. Above each of these openings is a first-floor window with altered openings. The rear of the central section is largely obscured by a two-storey modern extension. To the left is an altered opening with a hollow chamfered lintel, formerly a doorway but now considerably narrowed to form a window; this nearly corresponds to the original front door and appears to indicate the former cross passage.

The later north-eastern wing is one bay wide with a lateral stack to the north-east end. It may have 17th-century origins but has been substantially rebuilt. A large 20th-century garage is attached to the north-east end of the building.

In the front elevation of the south-western portion of the building, a central inserted doorway has a 20th-century glazed porch, with a window with chamfered stone frame to either side. It is thought that there was an early doorway to the left; this opening is now widened to contain a window, of which only one of the original three mullions remains. In the smaller, right-hand window, the two mullions and sill have been removed, apparently to provide a door opening at another time, which has now reverted to a window. On the first floor are two small window openings. At the rear of this portion of the building is a lateral stack to the right, partly obscured by a 20th-century single-storey lean-to extension; there is another later, partially-glazed extension to the south-west end.

Interior

The north-east parts of the building have been much altered internally, and no original features remain. The current front door leads to the principal room, where the chimney-breast to the north-east end has been entirely rebuilt. A modern opening leads to the north-eastern section, and another to the kitchen in the south-east extension. On the first floor, the rooms are created by modern partitions and 20th-century roof timbers are exposed.

The south-west portion of the building has also been reconfigured during the course of its history; its current layout is thought to date from the 19th century, with two main ground-floor rooms separated by an inserted straight staircase. In the north-east ground-floor room is a substantial stone chimneypiece with a massive chamfered granite lintel on granite jambs; the fireplace has been divided, and there is a salt alcove to the left. In this room, the joists are chamfered. The south-west ground-floor room has a fireplace alcove in the end wall, with a cloam oven to the right. To the left of the fireplace is a window, thought once to have been a door. In the south-east wall of this room is an opening to the lean-to kitchen extension. On the first floor, the south-west room has a small Victorian cast-iron fireplace and a Victorian panelled door.