Trendrine Cottage, Front Garden Walls And Gate Piers

Trendrine Cottage is a house that may have originally been an integral cottage, now functioning as a single dwelling. It dates from around the late 18th century, possibly involving the remodelling of an older structure, and was extended in the 19th century. The building is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings and features a grouted and partially slurried scantle slate roof, topped with a brick chimney on the left-hand gable end.

The layout suggests it was originally a two-room plan house. Since the late 18th or early 19th century, it has been configured as a two-room plan house on the right and a one-room plan cottage on the left, separated by a thin partition. The house originally had a lobby entrance and staircase between the two rooms, which include a parlour on the left and a larger kitchen on the right. The cottage has its own lobby entrance and staircase on the right side. There are 19th-century lean-tos at the rear.

The exterior of the cottage is two storeys high, with an overall three-window south front. The left side features one window for the cottage, with a blocked doorway to its right. The right side has nearly symmetrical two windows for the house, with a doorway located to the left of the middle. The front includes a 20th-century porch, a 19th-century panelled door, and 20th-century four-pane two-light casements. The irregularly shaped front garden is enclosed by a granite moorstone rubble wall. The gateway, aligned with the house doorway, has rectangular-on-plan dressed granite monolithic gate piers and a wooden gate from around the early 20th century.

Inside, the cottage remains largely unaltered since the 18th century, retaining many original structural features, including ceiling beams, plank and muntin partitions, and two two-panel doors leading to the first floor. Trendrine Cottage is part of an unspoiled coastal hamlet situated within the ancient field system of this area of Cornwall.