Farm Buildings About 30 Metres North Of Treboul Farmhouse

ST GERMANS SX 35 Nli 4/77 Farm buildings about 30 Metres north of Treboul Farmhouse II GV

Group of estate farm buildings, including large stables. Circa 1860, built for the Port Eliot estate by the Great Western Railway. Few later alterations. Slatestone rubble with stone dressings. Slurried slate roofs. Planned farmyard, overall U-plan with large stables, barn with a connecting covered way used as a housing for a threshing machine, to second barn and attached cart shed. Stables 2 storeys, with gable end to front and rear, with raised gable over clerestorey ventilators with scalloped boards to eaves; front gable end has central C20 double doors, blocked round arch with dressed stone head to right and left and above. 4 doors to right side. Left side has 2 doors and 2 ventilators. Inside, the horses were kept to one side, and cows at a lower level to the right hand side. Barn to south east. Barn with straw loft on upper floor. 2 storeys, with 4 doors on front gable end with upper loading door and ventilation slit. Left side has ventilation slit, 2 doors, one blocked, and 2 windows, one blocked. Right side has 2 round-arched blocked doorways with dressed stone heads. Covered way joins this building to a barn to south west, of 2 storeys with hipped roof. In the end facing the covered way, 2 doors at ground floor and upper loading door. Right side has double doors with brick segmental heads, blocked upper loading door. Left side has 3 upper louvred windows. Attached to north, a lower 2 storey shed, of 2 bays, with 2 double doors and window, loading door above. Cart shed to end right, of 5 bays, open-fronted, upper level supported on circular granite piers set on roughly-hewn granite bases. Slate-hung at upper level, with 2 windows and central loading door. Treboul Farmhuse and farm buildings were built as compensation for land lost in St Germans village when the railway was constructed.

Listing NGR: SX3464057473