Trethowel Farmhouse

SW 84 SW KEA

2/122 Trethowel Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse and adjoining garden walls to north and north west. Circa late C18. Slatestone rubble walls with stuccoed front. Asbestos slate roof, half-hipped to left (north east) with brick chimneys over sides wall, left, gable end right, and over half-hip of corrugated iron roofed wing to rear. Plan of 2-rooms flanking central stair with service wing at right angles to rear of north east end, formerly with farm building attached to south west end of house but demolished circa 1960s. 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3-window north west front. Doorway slightly off- centre to right with open pediment doorcase with modillion brackets. Round-arched opening rises into tympanum. Door has 6 fielded panels and integral 8-panes overlight. Window openings have slate sills and keyed cambered arches. All original hornless sashes with much crown glass. Ground floor windows are taller with 16-pane sashes and first floor has 8-pane sashes. Paired eaves brackets support original wooden launder. Rear wing has original wide tripartite sashes. Timber lintels. Wide 4-light window, lighting stair, returns with 1 light to rear wall. Straight joint under suggests that stair window was taller and that wing must be slightly later. 4-panel door under middle lights of window. Cast iron ogee gutters. Interior is very intact with original 6-panel doors with fielded panels, architraves, window shutters and plaster ceilings. Front rooms have moulded cornices and bands. Open-well stair has stick balusters with plinths. First floor rooms and roof structures not inspected but roof over wing is said to be of much cruder construction with partly hewn timber. Slate coped rubble wall adjoins north corner and returns parallel to front of house as low coped wall surmounted by hooped wrought iron railings. Central gateway with dressed granite piers and single-braced iron gate hung for self-closing.

Listing NGR: SW8295842618