Tregethas Farmhouse, Front Garden Walls, Earth Closets And Rear Courtyard Walls

Tregethas Farmhouse, alongside its front garden walls, earth closets, and rear courtyard walls, dates primarily to the 17th century, with substantial remodelling in the 18th and extensions in the 19th centuries. The front of the farmhouse is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings, while the rest of the walls are painted rubble. The roof is hipped and covered in grouter scantle slate, featuring a brick chimney on the front side walls and grouter scantle slate roofs with chimneys at the gable ends of the rear range, which represents the original house. The original house has a double-depth plan with two rooms wide. A mid-19th century house was added to the front, incorporating an entrance hall between two front parlours, a pantry behind the left-hand room, and a stair hall behind the wider right-hand room, all arranged parallel to a two-room plan of the original 17th century section. A wide blocked opening in the axial wall suggests a possible former front wall, later remodelled in the 18th century to create a five-window front. Ships timbers have been reused as lintels over these openings. A later, probably 19th century, lean-to washhouse is located at the rear left. The southwest front is nearly symmetrical with three windows and a doorway with a window above, slightly left of the centre. The original mid-19th century door and windows include a four-panel door with overlight, and hornless sash windows with glazing bars. The rear elevation has a slightly irregular three-window front with a central doorway and window above; a wide opening under the left-hand window contains a late 18th or early 19th century 20-pane sash window. To the right of that doorway is a wider opening with a mid-18th century three-light casement featuring two original eight-pane lights and horizontal-sliding sashes to square first-floor openings. An old ledged door is also present. The lean-to has a doorway into its left side and a chimney at the rear right. Interior features from the 17th century include a possibly late-17th century plaster ceiling in the rear right-hand room, decorated with round central mouldings surrounding a Tudor rose, and a fireplace in the rear left-hand room with chamfered granite jambs and lintel, incorporating a deep niche (remodelled in the 18th century). 18th century features consist of softwood plank and muntin partitions, ceiling beams and some doors. The front of the house retains much of its original 19th century detailing, including the staircase, parlour ceilings (with a ceiling band in the right-hand room), panelled doors and an archway at the rear of the entrance hall. Rubble garden walls are present adjoining the front of the house. The wall on the left adjoins a two-cell earth closet with doorways on either side, and two niches underneath the north-east facing side.