Trelaske Lodge

Trelaske Lodge

Former lodge, built in 1842 by an architect unknown.

This is a Gothic Revival lodge of two storeys, roughly T-shaped in plan. It is constructed of snecked stone on a moulded plinth with granite dressings and granite quoins to the front elevation. The pitched roof is covered in Delabole slate with crested ridge tiles and features decorative timber bargeboards with pendants at the corners and in the apexes; the rear elevation has no bargeboards. A rendered axial stack comprising three attached diagonally-set square-profile shafts rises on the south-east ridge.

The principal elevation faces north-east and is asymmetrical. The gable end of the cross wing on the right has a two-light timber casement window with a hood mould, below which stands a square bay window with a moulded cornice and hipped stone roof, set with a three-light timber mullion and transom window. To the left is a two-light mullion and transom window with a hood mould. An identical window appears on the ground floor of the south-east elevation, with a two-light timber casement window with a hood mould above it. The north-west elevation has a central gable and is symmetrical except for an added first-floor window to the right of a central window with timber casement and hood mould. Below this is the main entrance, which has a timber panelled door flanked by two single windows with timber casements and hood moulds. The south-west rear elevation has an entrance fitted with a late-20th-century timber door and a single rectangular window with diamond leaded lights that lights the stairs. Most ground-floor windows have diamond leaded lights to their top panes, and most casement windows are fixed.

A stone-built privy with a planked timber door and corrugated plastic roof is attached to the rear elevation at the north end.

The interior is accessed through the main entrance into a sitting room which features an exposed stone wall opposite containing an inglenook with a timber lintel and cloam oven (doorless), along with a 20th-century slate hearth and woodburning stove. The bay window to the front and side window retain hinge marks indicating former internal shutters, and the mullions and transoms have roll-moulded edges. The sitting room door is timber with three vertical panels, matching the pattern of the main external entrance door. The hallway leads to a small kitchen on the right, probably formerly a larder or pantry, which has four substantial meat hooks to the ceiling, a slate flag floor, and a recess with a timber lintel fitted with a 20th-century Rayburn. The kitchen doorway has pintle hinges but the door fitted is of the same three-panel pattern and not hung on them. At the opposite end of the hallway is a further room, possibly the original kitchen though with no evidence of a range, which has a slate flag floor and window seats. The doorcase to the hallway has pintle hinges but no door, and an external entrance door to the rear is present. The timber staircase is located off the hallway against the rear wall and has simple square-section baluster and newel posts.

At the top of the stairs to the left is a small room now functioning as a bathroom, probably adapted from another use when a new window opening was added. The two bedrooms are in the eaves and have softwood floorboards and panelled timber doors matching the ground-floor pattern. A slate hearth remains in one room although the fireplace has been removed and blocked.

Nothing survives internally of the privy.