Trewithen House

Trewithen House is a house that was once used as an account house and later as a public house, known as the Godolphin Arms. It dates from around the mid-18th century, although it incorporates elements of an older house. The walls are of granite rubble, with the front largely rebuilt in the 18th century using dressed granite jambstones and wedged lintels to the ground floor, and granite ashlar with flat arches to the first floor. Slate sills are present, and the roof is covered in scantle slate, with brick chimneys marking the gable ends.

The house has an L-shaped plan, originally likely a two-room layout with a kitchen to the left and a parlour to the right, connected by a cross passage. Around the mid to late 18th century, it was remodelled and extended, adding a single-room service wing (likely a kitchen) at right angles behind the left-hand room, and a 20th-century lean-to providing a stair hall and small service room (probably a pantry) behind the passage and right-hand room. A cellar lies beneath the left-hand rooms.

The south front is nearly symmetrical, with three windows, although the doorway is centrally placed but slightly offset to the right. The house has two storeys. The front features a late 19th or early 20th-century door and windows set within 18th-century openings. It has a six-pane top-glazed door and six-pane horned sash windows, with a slightly narrower four-pane sash above the doorway. At the rear, an original early to mid-18th century eight-pane fixed stair window with thick glazing bars is still visible.

The interior includes an original cellar, recently rediscovered, featuring a sump cut into the floor, and a granite-flagged cross-passage floor. A shallow open-well staircase, dating from the early to mid-18th century, has rectangular balusters on the closed string, with a column-turned balustrade leading to the landing (the treads are 20th-century replacements). A large 17th-century stone fireplace is in the front left-hand room, approximately 7 feet wide and 4 feet deep, with an oven on either side. The right-hand oven is larger, with a D-shaped plan and a corbelled domed ceiling. The roof structure dates from the 18th century; over the front, it has only one massive truss, left of the middle, with rafters carried by purlins of unusually large scantling, likely intended to create attic space. Traces remain of an entrance to a former passage, located under the right-hand window, which appears to have led from the cellar to a beehive-roofed circular building to the left of the house, which was demolished in the 20th century.