Trebant Farmhouse And Garden Wall To Front

ALTARNUN SX 28 SW 4/28 Trebant Farmhouse and garden wall - to front

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Farmhouse and garden wall to front. Probably early C18. Laced stone rubble masonry, rendered and painted on front elevation and slate hung on left hand side. Cement washed scantle slate rdof. Granite ashlar end stacks with moulded granite caps and rear lateral stone rubble kitchen stack. Plan: Double depth plan of unusual arrangement for such a date. Central entrance leads into wide stair with C19 stair and with large room (hall) on right and smaller room (parlour) on left, both heated by end stacks. Large kitchen to rear right, heated by rear lateral stack, and smaller dairy to rear left. Adjoining the rear wall, to left of centre between the kitchen and dairy is a granite winder stair poviding access directly from the kitchen to the first floor. Exterior: Two storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front. Central chamfered granite 4- centred arch with curved diagonal stops. C19 plank door. Flanked by two C19 hornless 20-pane sashes with hoodmould above. Three C19 16-pane hornless sashes on first floor. In the right hand side is a probably reset granite chamfered 4-centred arch which has been partly blocked and has had a window inserted to light the kitchen. In the rear elevation are two 2-light granite mullion windows on the ground and first floor with an outshut to rear right. Garden wall to front of stone rubble and granite. Interior: Wide stair hall with C19 stair. Hall on right has a large fireplace with chamfered granite surround, the jambs with curved diagonal stops. Small chamfered granite surround to fireplace heating parlour on left. Kitchen to rear right has a blocked fireplace, deep thin bowtell moulded floor-joists and rising from the left hand wall a fine quality granite winder stair. Within the dairy to left, the space below the stair forms a large niche, possibly to contain a salting trough, the outer corner with a granite pier, possibly to provide extra support for the stair. First floor not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX2368980512