Caervallack Lodge And Gate Piers

Caervallack Lodge and gate piers form part of the Trelowarren estate and were rebuilt around the late 19th century. The lodge includes granite gate piers at the northeast, although the driveway is now blocked. The construction is of mixed rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills, archstones, and lintels. The roof is hipped, covered with scantle slate, and features a brick chimney above the central section. The rectangular plan comprises three rooms, a staircase, a baffle entrance two rooms deep, a parlour, a pantry, and a kitchen, with a dog-leg staircase behind. It is two storeys high and symmetrical on the north front, with three windows overlooking the former carriageway. The central doorway is pointed arched, with an original ledged door and a small, pointed arched window above featuring Y-tracery. The other windows are taller, rectangular openings with four-pane, two-light casements. A flagged path runs in front of the lodge. The interior remains largely unchanged since its construction. The granite gate piers are rounded-headed and square in plan. Originally, the lodge was thatched and perhaps resembled The Lodge at Gweek, in the parish of Mawgan-in-Meneage; some of the stone used in the present lodge may be from the earlier thatched structure.