Tregear Farmhouse

Tregear Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the middle of the 17th century, with alterations made in the later 17th century. Further alterations and additions were carried out in the mid-to-late 19th century, along with some 20th-century changes. The farmhouse is constructed of rendered stone rubble with a slate roof featuring crested ridge tiles, which is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right. It has an end stack to the left with a rendered brick shaft, and a front lateral stack to the right with an 18th-century brick shaft.

The original plan comprised two rooms and a passage; it is unclear whether the passage was a through passage or a cross passage. The left-hand room was originally the lower end room, and was heated by an end stack. A hall was located to the right; around the late 17th century, the hall stack was rebuilt, and a bay was added to the right. Set back to the end on the right is a room at the upper end, likely an addition dating from the late 17th to 18th century, and which was unheated. 19th-century additions were made to the left end and behind the passage and lower end room.

The farmhouse presents an asymmetrical 4-window front, two storeys high. All visible windows are 19th and 20th century replacements. A 20th-century glazed lean-to extends along the front of the lower end room and doorway to the passage on the left. A 19th-century 3-light 3-pane casement and plank door with an overlight is located in the passage. The first floor has a late 19th-century 4-pane sash and a 2-light 3-pane casement. To the right, a large external hall stack is visible, along with a bay containing a 2-light 2-pane 19th-century casement on the ground floor and a 2-light 3-pane 19th-century casement on the first floor. The upper end room, set back to the right, has a 20th-century window on the ground floor and a 19th-century 2-light 3-pane casement on the first floor. The right end of the building is built into the bank and is blind. The left end has a two-storey 19th-century addition.

At the rear, the upper end room has a 19th-century 2-light 3-pane casement on the ground floor. The hall has a 19th-century 3-light 2-pane casement on the ground floor and a 19th-century 2-light 6-pane casement with ‘L’ hinges on the first floor. A 19th-century 2-storey addition encloses the rear of the passage, with a 20th-century window on the inner side on both ground and first floors. The rear of this addition contains a single casement to the left and a 3-light 4-pane casement to the right on the ground floor, with a 20th-century window and a late 19th-century 4-pane sash on the first floor.

The interior was only partially inspected. The hall has moulded ceiling beams, which may be 18th century, and the front lateral fireplace has been rebuilt. The remainder of the house was inaccessible.