Trefrew And Garden Walls And Gate Piers To Front

This is a house with associated garden walls and gate piers. It likely dates from the 16th or early 17th century, and may have origins as early as the 15th century. The house is constructed from stone rubble with granite quoins. It has a rag slate roof with gable ends, both front and rear. Originally, it had end and lateral stacks, although the end stack to the right of the rear range and the lateral stack to the left were original features. A projecting end stack of stone rubble with a brick shaft is present to the right of the rear range. The original plan is uncertain, but it seems to have had a two-room arrangement with a through passage, with the left-hand room heated by a rear lateral stack, and a larger room to the right, likely a hall kitchen, heated by an end stack. In the 18th or early 19th century, a rear outshot was added across the rear elevation, and a lean-to outshot was added to the right-hand gable end, which previously had an end stack that has since been removed. In the mid-20th century, the lean-to outshot was raised to two storeys. A circa 17th-century doorframe to the rear of this outshot appears to have been reset. The front of the house has a regular four-window arrangement with renewed six-pane sashes on the ground floor and four-pane sashes on the first floor. The entrance is located to the left of the centre and features a circa 15th-century granite arch with a roll mould and carved spandrels. Inside, slate flag floors are present, with a suspended timber floor in the left-hand room. The passage is wide and flanked by lath and plaster partitions, and a circa 19th-century staircase was inserted to the rear of the passage. The left-hand room retains a rear lateral stack with a 20th-century tiled granite surround. The larger right-hand room has a circa 17th-century chamfered granite lintel and left and right hand jambs that have been replaced. A probably reset granite entrance to the rear of the extension on the right is of circa 17th-century date, with a chamfered lintel and jambs with run-out stops. The roof was replaced around the late 19th century. Stone rubble garden walls extend to the front, with stone rubble gate piers and dressed granite details, square on plan. The house itself remains unaltered. There are several pieces of dressed granite and greenstone, including a one-light greenstone window in the yard.