Trevague Farmhouse And Adjoining Barn

Trevague Farmhouse and adjoining barn are likely of 17th-century origin, significantly remodelled and refaced in the early 19th century. The construction is stone rubble with large granite quoins and granite dressings, topped with rag slate roofs. The farmhouse section has a lower roof with gable ends, while the barn has a higher roof with hipped and half-hipped ends. Stone axial and end stacks are visible, along with a brick shaft to the rear service stack.

The building features an unusual plan, the original arrangement of which is now uncertain. The current layout consists of a barn to the left and a farmhouse to the right. The farmhouse has an entrance passage on the left leading to a principal room on the right, originally heated by a rear stack. Around the early 19th century, the farmhouse was extended to the right with a second room, likely a parlour, also with a rear stack. Further extensions to the rear added a kitchen behind the passage and a dairy behind the parlour. The adjoining barn has shippons (animal stalls) on the ground floor and a loft above. The lack of a direct joint between the house and barn suggests they were contemporary with the front wall of the house. A portion of the barn's ground floor has been incorporated into the house to form a passage, and a 20th-century staircase has been inserted into the original passage.

The asymmetrical front elevation is dominated by the taller barn on the left. Granite lintels above the ground floor openings of both the house and barn are extended to create a flat string band. The farmhouse section has a 19th-century door on the left and two likely 19th-century two-light casement windows to the right. Three likely 19th-century two-light casement windows are on the first floor above the ground floor openings. The barn’s symmetrical two-storey elevation has three ground floor doors with a central loft door above. A 20th-century porch has been added in front of the right-hand door of the barn and the left-hand door of the house. The rear elevation of the barn features external stone steps leading to the loft, sheltered by a slate hipped hood.

Inside the house, a 20th-century staircase now occupies the original passage. The room to the right of the passage has a large chamfered cross beam of considerable depth, with an indeterminate plaster ceiling and joist design. The roof structure is inaccessible, but the feet of the principals and collars are chamfered. The barn retains a pegged A-frame roof.