Trenow And Front Garden Walls

Trenow is a farmhouse with front garden walls, dating from the early 19th century. It features walls made of Killas rubble, with dressed granite used for the quoins, jambstones, bonding stones, sills, and lintels. The roof is a grouted scantle slate with brick chimneys on the gable ends.

The building has a double depth plan, consisting of two nearly equal front rooms with a cross passage that leads to a central stair between two shallow service rooms. The left front room originally served as the kitchen/living room and is now combined with the room behind it, while the right front room is the parlour. There is a small 19th-century outbuilding, possibly a stable, attached to the left gable end towards the rear, and a 20th-century kitchen at the opposite end in a similar position.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical three-window front facing south-south-east, with a roughly central doorway. The doorway features a four-panel door that has been later glazed in the top panels, and the windows are late 19th-century sash windows with hornless lower inner sashes and horned upper sashes. There is an ashlar plinth and an ashlar lintel course.

Inside, the structure remains fairly complete, retaining the original first floor, likely the original roof structure, and most of the original partitions. A large granite fireplace is present in the left front room.

The front garden is rectangular and enclosed by a rubble wall with a slurried coping. The gateway aligns with the front doorway and is flanked by round-headed granite monolithic jambs.

This farmhouse is an unspoiled example from the 19th century, located near Binnerton Manor Farmhouse, which is an interesting 17th and 18th-century house.