Tregoose Farmhouse And Adjoining Outbuildings

Tregoose Farmhouse is a historic building dating back to the 17th century, with significant rebuilding occurring around the early 18th century. An outbuilding was added around the early 19th century, and the entire complex was substantially refurbished following a fire in the late 19th or early 20th century. The farmhouse is constructed of local killas rubble with dressed granite moorstone quoins, and features granite lintels, jambstones, and a flush lintel band to the front. The rear of the building is characterised by painted rubble walls and slate sills. It has asbestos slate roofs and prominent granite chimneys, including an unusual external stone rubble stack on the rear service wing with five diminishing stages, set offs, and a brick chimney shaft.

The building’s layout is irregular, forming a T-shape. While the original 17th-century plan is uncertain, part of the left-hand gable end appears to be original. Otherwise, the early 18th-century rebuilding created a two-room plan, consisting of a hall/kitchen to the left and a parlour to the right, with a passage running through. A kitchen was added around the mid to late 18th century, extending at a right angle to the rear, featuring a gable-end stack. Around the late 18th or early 19th centuries, a semi-bank barn was added to the left, likely with a shippon (animal shelter) below and fodder or grain storage above, with a rear first-floor loading doorway accessible by a wide rubble ramp. Finally, a pantry outshut and a small 20th-century porch were added to the rear right-hand angle.

The front of the farmhouse presents a nearly symmetrical three-window façade, with a doorway and window positioned slightly left of centre. Blocked window openings are present on either side of the doorway. A continuous ashlar lintel band runs over the ground-floor openings, while a similar course sits between the second and third first-floor windows. The large, slightly irregular quoins do not align perfectly with the ashlar courses. The original 18th-century ground-floor windows are square, while the first-floor windows are the same width but shorter. The farmhouse features a 20th-century glazed door and 20th-century six-pane horned sash windows.

Adjoining the front of the farmhouse is a two-storey shippon/barn with small ventilator windows on both ground and first floors, and a blocked loading/winnowing doorway on the middle of the first floor, with a rear doorway at the same level accessible by a rubble ramp. A reused 17th-century chamfered granite lintel sits above a first-floor window opening on the right-hand gable end. Above this window is a smaller blocked window opening that originally lit the attic space.

The interior carpentry and joinery date from the late 19th or early 20th century, and some fireplaces have been blocked. Tregoose Farmhouse is noted for its remodelling in the 18th century, providing four ground-floor windows but only three first-floor windows, a less common design. The continuous granite lintel band was a fashionable architectural detail. The tall ashlar chimneys, particularly the stepped kitchen chimney, are considered fine and distinctive features.