Trelissick Farmhouse With Attached Garden Wall

Trelissick Farmhouse with Attached Garden Wall

A farmhouse with attached garden wall, dating from the late 17th century with additions from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from slatestone rubble with granite dressings and is roofed with hipped asbestos slate and ridge tiles, with some slurried scantle slates remaining on the rear slope.

The main structure follows a two-room plan with a central entrance, principal rooms to the front left and right, a rear central stair tower, with an unheated dairy and closet to the rear. The room to the right is heated from an end stack and the room to the left from a rear lateral stack. A truncated stack stands at the end left. The front left wing, which also has a hipped roof and a stack with brick shaft at the front end, dates from circa the 18th century, as does a further addition at the left end with two rooms heated from separate stacks. A 19th-century addition was also made at the left end.

The exterior presents two storeys with a symmetrical three-window front to the main range, with the wing projecting to the front left. The ground floor features a central 18th-century six-panelled door in a rusticated surround. To the right and left are 19th-century 12-pane sashes with long and short granite jambs and projecting keystones; the lower section of each sash is 19th-century two-pane. The ground floor window to the right contains a stained glass roundel of circa the late 17th century bearing a crest and Latin motto. The first floor has three similar sashes. A modillion cornice runs across the front.

The wing to the left is two-storey. Its inner side has a ground floor early 20th-century paired sash with cambered brick arch. The front end of the wing is blank, with a stone mounting block attached. The left side of the wing features a 19th-century lean-to porch with a four-pane window to the front, six-pane window to the side and a 20th-century door to the rear, with an inner 20th-century door. At first floor to the left is a 20th-century casement. To the left stands a two-storey gabled block attached to the wing, dating from the late 19th century, with a door at ground floor and a 20th-century window at first floor. A later 19th-century single storey addition stands at the left end.

The right side of the main range has an external stack, partly rendered. At the rear, to the left is the dairy with loft above, featuring a 20th-century door and two-light casement at the right side; the rear has a 20th-century window to the loft. To the right is the stair tower with hipped roof. Its rear elevation features an early 18th-century circa 1700 18-pane sash with thick glazing bars, flat-faced outside and ovolo-moulded inside, with crown glass. To the right at ground floor is a single storey 20th-century lean-to and to the end right a 20th-century two-light window. The first floor has a 19th-century two-light three-pane casement with roughly hewn wooden lintel and a 20th-century two-light casement.

The garden wall is constructed in rubble with rubble coping and features a 19th-century wrought iron gate in the front range. The wall is higher at the right side.

The interior of the main range is entered through the front entrance into an entrance passage. The doorway to the left has been moved, re-using a late 17th-century five-panelled bolection-moulded door. The doorway to the right is in its original position, with moulded eared architrave and five-panelled bolection-moulded door. The room to the left has a rear lateral fireplace with chamfered granite surround. This room was partitioned circa the 19th century to create a small unheated dairy to the left.

The room to the front right has a fine plaster ceiling in ribs with bolection-mouldings in scalloped and quatrefoil patterns, and a moulded cornice. The front window has panelled shutters.

The rear stair tower contains a fine open-well stair with barley-sugar twist balusters, fluted newels and wide moulded handrail, wreathed at the bottom, with the ramping in an exaggerated swept design. The stair is of similar design to that at Levalsa Farmhouse. At first floor there are three early 18th-century three-panelled fielded doors, to the rooms to the front right, left and centre. These rooms have been re-ceiled, with blocked fireplaces. The room to the front left has a two-panelled door to a cupboard.

In the front wing, the front end fireplace at ground floor has been rebuilt, retaining a cloam oven with clay door. The room at the left end has a blocked fireplace. At first floor in the wing, the roof space is not accessible; the feet of the principal rafters are roughly hewn.