Trevassack Farmhouse Including Rose Cottage

This is a circa mid-17th century farmhouse, extended and remodelled in the circa early 18th century, and subsequently subdivided in the circa mid to late 19th century, with a late 20th-century restoration. It is constructed of granite rubble with dressed granite quoins and lintels, and is whitewashed at the rear. The roof is of scantle slate, with granite coping to the gable ends, shaped kneelers and early crested ridge tiles. A large granite stack with weathering and a tapered cap stands at the left-hand gable end, while a brick shaft serves the right-hand gable end and a rear lateral stack.

The original plan was likely a 3-room and through or cross passage configuration; the lower left-hand portion served as the kitchen, heated from a gable end stack, the hall has a rear lateral stack, and the large inner room was likely a parlour with its own gable end stack. In the circa early 18th century, outshuts were added to the rear, and a passage between the hall and kitchen was replaced by a stair hall inserted between the hall and inner room. Further subdivision occurred in the circa mid to late 19th century, with the insertion of a second staircase in the outshut behind the hall.

The exterior presents as a long, asymmetrical 4-window range. Late 20th-century windows with top-opening lights are now present on the front elevation. A blocked passage doorway has been replaced with a new doorway containing a late 20th-century glazed door positioned to the right of centre. At the rear, the right-hand outshut has a lower roof and a single, circa 19th-century fixed light window of 6 panes; the left-hand outshut has two circa late 19th-century 2-light casements and a 20th-century plank door.

Inside, the ground floor features some early 18th-century 6-panel doors, some with fielded panels, and the first floor has fielded 2-panel doors. The kitchen retains a large open fireplace with a bracketted shelf and exposed softwood rafters. The hall has an early 20th-century mahogany chimney-piece, while the inner room’s fireplace has been rebuilt in the 20th century. A late 19th-century staircase with turned balusters and newel is located at the higher end of the house, while the mid to late 19th-century staircase in the outshut has stick balusters and turned newels. First-floor partitions are of 18th-century plank and muntin construction. The roof structure includes 20th-century softwood king-post trusses. Local records indicate that in 1649, Edward Tremayne, Lord of the Manor of Carwythenach, held Trevassack, which comprised two holdings of 29 and 14 acres.