Trebeigh Manor

Trebeigh Manor is a manor house, now farmhouse with store on the south side, dating from approximately the late 16th century. It stands in the parish of St Ive.

The building is constructed of rubblestone, rendered on the south front, with a slate and asbestos slate roof featuring a hipped end to the main range and a galvanised roof to a projecting wing on the right with gable end. A rubblestone stack rises on the right-hand hipped end, and two slate-hung rubblestone stacks with moulded caps stand on the left-hand hipped end and at the gabled rear lateral hall stack.

The plan is L-shaped with a projecting front wing now used as dairy and store. The main range probably followed a three-room and through-passage plan with the hall in the centre, though the passage has been blocked by a later staircase. Later outshuts were added to the rear.

The house is two storeys with a regular five-window front. The ground floor of the main range features a six-pane French window on the left, and a late 19th-century three-light casement near the centre in a granite mullioned opening. The hall window opening was extended at the base with triple roll-moulded jambs. A 20th-century porch has been inserted in the angle with the projecting wing on the right, rendered with a lean-to slate roof. A continuous hoodmould runs above the ground floor. Three 19th-century three-light casements with glazing bars appear on the first floor, though the central light of the right-hand window has been replaced.

The projecting wing on the right-hand side displays several blocked openings and straight joints. The ground floor here contains a two-light casement with iron stanchion bars beneath a brick segmental arch. Near the centre stands a plank door with large granite quoins and a timber lintel, followed by a straight joint. To the right lies a partly blocked opening in a granite surround with moulded granite jambs and hoodmould above bearing carved labels. Above this, a 19th-century three-light casement sits on the left beneath a timber lintel. The opening to the left of centre has been much altered within a larger opening. A rubblestone buttress with granite dressings stands on the south-east corner.

To the rear, a window to the left of the projecting lateral stack is a three-light casement with glazing bars in a granite surround with moulded granite jambs matching those on the front.

Internally, the hall fireplace is blocked. The first floor features a moulded granite frame to a niche at the top of the stairs, with the base of the jambs decorated with a combination of nail-head and dog-tooth patterns. The roof structure was not inspected during the survey.

Directly south of the entrance are two pieces of carved slate dating from approximately the 17th century. Several pieces of carved granite, possibly associated with the preceptory, are present, including a Maltese Cross set in a granite window frame.

The manor is recorded in Domesday Book as having been wrongfully held by the Count of Mortain, who had taken it from the church. In 1150, King Stephen granted the Manor of Trebeigh together with Temple on Bodmin Moor to the Knights Templars, forming the Preceptory of Trebeigh. The preceptory was granted the advowson of the parish church of St Ive. In 1312 the Knights Hospitallers became the new owners. Accounts discovered in Malta for the Hospitallers of St Ive in 1338 record dovecotes, honey, and the prices of animals and grain. The preceptory was dissolved around 1534 but restored again in 1557 by Queen Mary. In 1573 the manor was granted to Henry Wilbye and George Blyke. John Wrey subsequently acquired Trebeigh, making it the chief residence of the Wrey family until the mid-17th century. Under the Earl of Moreton and his successors, the manor enjoyed almost royal privileges with its own court Leet, including a Stewart, bailiff, and prison.