Tremore Manor And Attached Garden Walls

Tremore Manor is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from around 1815 with substantial additions and alterations made in the mid to late 19th century, and minor later changes. The building is constructed from granite and slatestone rubble, with a stuccoed front elevation and partly slate-hung walls, beneath a hipped slate roof. The chimney stacks to the sides have rendered shafts.

The house follows a double-depth plan for its front range, with a central entrance and principal rooms to the front left and right, each heated by a side stack. To the rear right is a service room, and at the rear centre is the stair hall. A service wing extends to the left with a two-room plan; the rear room and kitchen are both heated (the latter from a side stack), while an inner room serves as unheated service space. A rear wing extends to the right, forming a rear service range that encloses a service yard, accessed from the right side. Garden walls are positioned at the left side of the house.

The exterior presents a two-storey symmetrical three-window front elevation set on a plinth with rusticated quoins. The ground floor features a central Doric porch with columns and a modillion cornice; this is infilled with glazing to the sides, with a door to the front and right side, and an inner half-glazed door with margin glazing. Single-storey canted bays of mid to late 19th-century date flank the centre to left and right, fitted with six-pane sashes to the front and three-pane sashes to the sides, with lead roofs. The first floor has central paired sashes (12-pane and 16-pane) with matching sashes to left and right, all of 19th-century date, set in raised moulded architraves with cills on consoles. A lower two-storey addition of mid-19th-century date extends to the right, containing 16-pane sashes on both ground and first floors with the same architraves, quoins, and deep eaves supported on brackets.

The left end wall of the front range is blind and stuccoed with rusticated quoins. The two-storey rear wing is constructed from rubble with granite and brick dressings, featuring a large external stack. A 16-pane sash appears at ground floor to the right, and a 20-pane sash at first-floor level to the right in the rear range. Between these, a rubble wall encloses the service yard with a round-arched doorway containing a plank door. The service yard features the first floor of the front range carried over on cast iron piers; the upper storey is slate-hung with two 12-pane sashes. The ground floor contains a four-panelled door and plank door, with a further plank door to the rear wing and a 12-pane sash above. The rear range has a two-pane light and plank door at ground floor, with slate-hung upper storey containing a 12-pane sash. The rear elevation is rendered and displays two-light and four-light casements with iron stanchions at ground floor, with a 20-pane sash at first floor. A small two-storey gabled projecting wing to the right joins the rear range to the rear wing; this contains a plank door at ground floor and a four-pane sash at first floor.

Attached to the front left of the house is a granite rubble wall with slate coping, enclosing a garden measuring approximately 25 metres by 30 metres at the left side. The wall stands about 3 metres high; at the sides and rear, the wall has no coping.

Internally, the stair is of open-well design with turned balusters, scrolled string, and a wreathed handrail. The front right room features a plaster cornice and a plain chimneypiece with a 19th-century iron grate. Both front rooms are fitted with six-panelled doors.