Trefa

MARAZION FORE STREET, Marazion SW 5230-5330

5/8 Trefa

GV II

House and shop, originally a house. Circa early C18. Dressed coursed elvan with dressed granite quoins and dressed voussoirs to flat arches, slate sills. Scantle slate roofs with gable ends and gable and axial stacks. Brick chimneys except for stone chimney over right hand gable end. Cast-iron ogee gutters. Plan: L-shaped plan. Probably originally a 2 room house with cross passage between the rooms and with a 1 room plan service room behind the left hand room. In the circa early or mid C19 the right hand room (probably parlour) converted to shop and a lean-to added behind; the left hand room and cross passage converted to a 2 rooms wide house with smaller rooms and the passage resited towards the left between these rooms. Exterior : 2 storeys. Slightly irregular 3 window south front, probably originally a nearly symmetrical 5 window front. Now a 2-window house front, left, with doorway central to the fenestration and a shopfront, right, with 1 first floor window. The house has doorway in probably former window position and right hand window in former doorway position. 6-panel door with top panels later glazed, blocked window opening over the doorway, circa early C19 12-pane hornless sashes to ground floor openings, 16-pane similar sashes to first floor openings except that middle window is horned copy. The shopfront, right, has large panes and doorway on its left. Interior-not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW5202330636