Treyarnon Farmhouse

ST MERRYN SW 87 SE 3/259 Treyarnon Farmhouse

GV II

House. Circa early C19 extended in mid C19. Stone rubble. Slate roof with half- hipped ends. Axial and side stacks with rendered brick shafts. Plan: House originally of double depth plan with central entrance. 2 principal rooms on front heated by side stacks with stair to rear of central passage, dairy to rear left and probably back kitchen to rear right. In the mid C19 the house was extended with a service range on left; comprising kitchen heated by end stack, dairy and service outshut to rear left. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 2:3 window front with mid C19 extension on left and earlier range to right. Dressed stone flat arches to openings. Original house has a symmetrical front with C19 door in centre and probably C20 glazed porch in front, flanked by two 12-pane early C19 hornless sashes with 3 above. Later extension to left with 2-light casement on ground floor with two C19 hornless sashes above. Rear elevation with complete early C19 hornless sashes. Interior: Principal room to right has a late C18 or early C19 carved timber and plaster classical chimney-piece and moulded plaster cornice decorated with intertwined bunches of grapes and egg and dart motif. Circa 1840s Delabole slate chimney-piece with register grate in left hand room and another similar chimney-piece in probably original back kitchen, to rear right, which would have become a breakfast room or morning room when the circa mid C19 service range was added. The original dairy became a small unheated rear hall in circa mid C19. Circa early C19 stair with ramped rail, turned newels and stick balusters.

Listing NGR: SW8617873785