East Truas Farmhouse

TINTAGEL SX 08 NE 4/150 East Truas Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Circa early C20. Slate stone rubble and quartz. Rag slate roof with gable ends and sprocketted eaves. Rendered brick stack on left hand gable end and axial stone rubble stack backing onto right hand side of stair hall. 2 room single depth plan with entrance to left of centre leading directly into a wide stair hall. The smaller left hand room is heated by a gable end stack and the larger right hand room by an axial stack which backs onto the right hand side of the stair hall. The ground slopes down to the right. Vernacular Revival Style. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front facing an internal courtyard with lower North Truas Farmhouse to right (qv) and small outbuilding opposite (qv outbuilding to east of North Truas Farmhouse). The partly glazed plank entrance door is to left of centre with a 1-light and 2-light casement to left and a 3-light casement to right, all with glazing bars and dressed stone flat arches. On the first floor are 3 circa late C20 casements without glazing bars. The lower right hand gable end faces the road and has a 4-light casement on the ground and first floor with glazing bars and dressed stone flat arches and a reset possibly C16 1-light greenstone window in the gable end. Rear elevation has 3 half dormers with raking roofs. Interior has an ashlar stone stair in the central stair hall. Interior not accessible. Forms part of interesting group with contemporary farmhouse probably built by the same architect on north west (qv North Farmhouse, Truas) and contemporary outbuilding opposite to north (qv outbuilding to east of North Truas Farmhouse). Each of these buildings face inwards onto a grassed courtyard. To the west is the earlier farmhouse which is now disused (qv Disused Farmhouse to south west of North and East Farmhouses at Truas).

Listing NGR: SX0695987411