Tremaine House

Tremaine House is a house, originally a house and hat shop, and now again a private house. It likely dates from the early 18th century, with an extension featuring a projecting front wing added around the mid-18th century and remodelled in the mid-19th century. The house is constructed of stone rubble, with a rendered and painted ground floor and a slate-hung upper floor to the front. It has a rag slate roof with a gable end on the left and a later extended gabled front projecting wing – originally it had a hipped end on the right. There are brick chimney stacks on the left-hand gable end, a side lateral chimney stack on the rear corner of the projecting front wing, and a lateral chimney stack heating a service room to the rear.

The original layout of the house has been altered and probably remodelled in the mid to late 19th century. It has a double-depth plan, with a central cross passage, a staircase to the rear of the projecting front wing, and a service room in an integrated outshut to the rear, heated by a rear lateral stack. The front of the house is a regular 4-window arrangement; some casements have replaced 19th-century sash windows on the left-hand side, as evidenced by a photograph held by the owner. This side has a 4-light casement with small glazing bars, a 4-panel door, and 2-light casements above where sashes used to be. The projecting wing on the right has a 19th-century 12-pane sash window on the ground floor, two 2-light casements on the first floor, and a casement in the right-hand side wall with glass dating from the late 18th century.

Inside, there are 20th-century chimney pieces in the room on the left and a 19th-century fireplace in the service room to the rear. A remodelled 19th-century staircase originally formed a balcony around the service room to the rear. The interior joinery is simple and 19th-century. The roof structure has chamfered principals on the front slope, which were replaced around the mid to late 19th century to the rear. The house forms an important elevation to Church Hill and is part of a group with numbers 1, 3, and 5 Church Hill opposite.