Trescobel

Trescobel is a vicarage, now a private house, built around the early 19th century, possibly for John-Samuel Scobell, who was admitted in 1837 and died in 1849. The building is constructed of stone rubble and is rendered, likely originally plastered, with the left-hand side wall being slate-hung. It features brick end chimney stacks that heat two front reception rooms, a rear lateral brick stack for the original kitchen on the left, and an axial brick stack for the room on the rear right. There is a later service wing made of stone rubble with a slate roof, gable end, and brick end stack.

The house has a double depth plan with two reception rooms at the front, a stair at the rear of a central hall or passage, the original kitchen to the left of the stair, and a third reception room to the right. It was extended in the mid-19th century with a service wing at the rear right, designed as a one-room plan. The building is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front, featuring incised end pilaster strips with key motifs.

On the ground floor, there is a central Doric porch with fluted columns and part-glazed double doors, with an inner door and windows in the flanking walls that have original chinoiserie patterned glazing bars. Tall 12-pane hornless sashes are located on either side. The first floor has three 12-pane hornless sashes with eared architraves. The rear wing also contains hornless sashes and crown glass.

Inside, the house retains complete early 19th-century joinery. The central entrance hall features a plastered groin-vaulted ceiling with three bays. The front reception rooms are of equal size and have identical 19th-century marble chimney pieces with pilasters decorated with a key motif that matches the pilaster strips on the front elevation. There is a 19th-century open-well stair with an open-string and ramped rail. This house stands on the site of an earlier rectory, which is marked on an 18th-century map of Lanhydrock. Trescobel is noted for being a particularly complete early 19th-century vicarage, both internally and externally.