Higher Trevallett

This is a late 16th-century farmhouse, with later additions and alterations. The construction is of roughly coursed slate-stone with granite quoins and window surrounds, covered by a slate roof. The original design featured a 2-unit central through-passage, with a gabled range projecting to the right. The main range is two stories high. It has mullion windows on each floor, to both sides of a 2-story gabled porch. The windows on the left are 3-light, and those on the right are 2-light, each with cavetto moulding. The ground-floor windows have dripstones, with the lower right window featuring a king mullion. All windows have been fitted with late 20th-century plastic casements. The porch has a 3-light cavetto-moulded mullion window above a chamfered 4-centred doorway, which has pointed strap hinges and a heart-shaped plate on the handle of the plank door. A fixed-light window is set into the angled break between the main range and the porch, and there’s a plastic casement in an earlier opening in the main wall. There’s a prominent granite integral end stack with drips to the left, and a narrower stack in the right gable end. The projecting gabled range has mullion windows to the garden side; 3-light windows are positioned at the upper left and lower right, with 2-light windows at the lower left and upper right. A wood casement is located in the far left ground-floor window. A cambered archway is visible on the ground floor of the front gable. The farmyard side of the projecting range has 2-light mullion windows on the first floor to the right, and two similar windows below to the right. There is a doorway with a wood lintel on the first floor to the left. Pigeon nesting holes and ledges are directly below the eaves. This range is now used as a cowhouse. The building was formerly extended further to the north, and the north gable end was rebuilt in the 19th century, with a lean-to attached. A late 19th-century 2-story gabled addition sits at a right angle to the rear, to the right of the main range, with a lean-to to the rear on the left. Inside the main range, a ground-floor room on the left features chamfered joists with stepped ogee stops. A late 19th-century staircase is located off the through-passage. The truncated integral end stack in the front gable of the projecting range has an infilled granite fireplace with chamfered lintel and jambs on the ground floor. The roof structure consists of a continuous loft and collar-and-tie beam roof, in 7 bays, including the shortened north bay, and has chamfered cambered collars.