Charlotte House

Charlotte House is a house built around 1804, remodeled in the early and later 19th century. The exterior features stucco or possibly render that has replaced the original stucco. It has hipped roofs covered with asbestos slate, projecting eaves, and cast-iron ogee gutters. There is a partly external stack on the left side with a rendered brick chimney, a pair of octagonal stuccoed chimney shafts on the right side, and a brick chimney at the original end of the wing towards the rear on the right. The house has a double depth plan with 20th-century extensions, including two reception rooms at the garden front, a stair hall behind the left reception room, and probably the original kitchen behind the right reception room.

The house is two storeys tall with a regular two-window garden front and a granite plinth. The left bay is bowed, and each bay features a canted bay window on the ground floor. In front of the ground floor is a mid to late 19th-century four-bay verandah supported by ornate cast-iron stanchions, which returns at both ends to cover the entrance doorway and extend along the side. The transomed ground floor windows likely date to the same time as the verandah and have diagonal and square patterned glazing in the casements. The first-floor windows have similar glazing only in the top lights. The entrance front has a doorway with a pair of 19th-century panelled doors and an overlight with diamond panes, all within an early 19th-century moulded doorcase with corner blocks.

Inside, the inspected areas retain their early 19th-century carpentry, joinery details, and plasterwork, including a dog-leg stair with an open string, a cornice with modillions in the stair hall, cornices with trailing bands, and six-panel doors. Charlotte House was the home of Jane Trevithick, née Jane Harvey, the wife of the famous engineer Richard Trevithick, likely from around 1836 until 1868.