Cowhouse North West Of Trecarrell Mill

The cowhouse, located north west of Trecarrell Mill in Lezant, is a disused building from the 18th century that incorporates earlier fabric. It features granite rubble walls and a weatherboarded timber-frame gable end on the north east side, with a gable-ended roof covered in corrugated-iron sheets. The structure is rectangular in plan, with its back wall built into a field boundary wall. The front has stable doors to the right and left of a large central entrance that provides access to the loft, along with an additional loft door in the north east gable where the ground is at a higher level.

The building is one storey with a loft. The left gable end has earlier masonry at its base, featuring a triangular opening made from three roughly hewn slates and a loft window above with a wooden frame. The right gable end is weatherboarded timber-framing, with a large loft doorway accessed by simple stone steps. The rear wall is integrated into the field boundary wall.

Inside, the cowhouse has a four-bay roof supported by five collar trusses, with the collars lapped and pegged to the principals. These principals are supported on short posts that are pegged to their feet and set on low wall-plates. There are three tie-beams on the wall-plates that formerly supported the loft floor; at the rear, two of these tie-beams are supported by large stone monoliths. The purlins have been replaced, and the roof has been re-clad without common rafters. This cowhouse is an unusually constructed 18th-century farm building with earlier origins.