Trevergy Farmhouse And Adjoining Farmbuilding

Trevergy Farmhouse and adjoining farmbuilding date from the early to mid-18th century, with extensions built in 1825. The farmhouse is constructed of painted shale rubble, with rendered cob to the front first floor. The original front has slate sills and wooden lintels, while the 1825 extension features granite lintels. The roof is corrugated asbestos, originally thatched, with brick chimneys on the gable ends of the 18th-century part. A lower-pitched scantle slate roof covers the adjoining farmbuilding, also with a brick chimney.

The original plan comprised a hall/kitchen to the left, a parlour to the right, and a central passage. This passage originally led to an 18th-century staircase within a wing set at a right angle to the middle of the rear. The 19th century saw enlargement of the staircase wing and a two-storey, single-room addition on a lower ground floor adjoining the hall/kitchen, which is integral with the farmbuilding to the far left.

The 18th-century front presents a nearly symmetrical three-window façade, with a single-window domestic front adjoining it to the left. The central doorway is within a 20th-century glazed porch. Above the doorway is a square window with a circa 1820 12-pane horizontal sliding sash. Other ground floor window openings have similar early 19th-century horizontal sliding sashes. The 1825 front to the left has a similar window to the first floor, a ledged door on the ground floor to the right, and a 20th-century casement in the original opening to the left of the doorway. The front of the farmbuilding to the far left is largely unaltered, with unpainted rubble walls.

The interior retains much original 18th-century carpentry and joinery, including an upper flight of stairs with splat twist balusters, ovolo-moulded beams, a built-in settle on the left of the entry, and a large hearth with an oven. The parlour has a dentilled cornice, and the feet of the original trusses are exposed below the plaster ceiling of the bedrooms. A large hearth in the 1825 addition incorporates a reused 17th-century chamfered granite jamb. The date of the 1825 extension is recorded in the roof plaster, bearing the name Samuel Lugg. Later inscriptions by James Boaden are dated 1863, 1877, and 1886. An old photograph, rephotographed for the National Monuments Record, shows the farmhouse with a thatched roof and a granite-coped walled courtyard at the front.