Trevenner Farmhouse And Trevenner Cottage

Trevenner Farmhouse and Trevenner Cottage are a pair of houses, likely dating from the early 16th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries and a partial rebuilding around the late 19th century. The construction is from granite and killas rubble with granite dressings, and the roofs are covered in scantle slate, featuring brick chimneys to the gable ends, a lateral stack at the rear left, and some 17th-century hand-made crested clay ridge tiles over the rear wing. Cast-iron ogee gutters are also present.

The building has an irregular L-shaped plan. Originally it was likely a three-room farmhouse with a through passage, extended in the 17th century with a service wing at a right angle to the higher end room on the left. The through passage was originally flanked by thick stone walls, but the left-hand wall was removed in 1986. The front wall and gable end to the left of the passage, the right-hand gable end, part of the rear wall, and the left-hand rear corner of the wing were rebuilt around the late 19th century.

The north front presents two storeys, with a seven-window facade to Trevenner Farmhouse, which projects forward on the left, and a three-window facade to Trevenner Cottage on the right. Trevenner Farmhouse has a doorway in the left of the middle of its front. Reused 16th-century fragments are visible above the doorway and to the left of the doorway, including parts of a three-light mullioned window, jambstones, hoodmoulds, corbels, and four-centred arched window heads. Trevenner Cottage has the original square-headed doorway of the former through passage, now blocked, with a present doorway to the left of the middle. A jambstone with a pyramid stop is visible on the rear of the passage. The rear wing features two 17th-century windows with chamfered frames and evidence of central mullions, whilst other openings are 18th-century remodellings. A chamfered lintel sits above a blocked window opening in the rear gable end.

Inside, the 16th-century features include a partly blocked corbelled fireplace on the right-hand through passage wall, originally serving a chamber, now with a 19th-century iron grate. 17th-century features include a chamfered and stopped cross beam and two roof trusses with pegged lap-dovetailed collar joints within the wing. The lime-washed, pegged lower roof structure in Trevenner Cottage is likely from the 18th century. This is an early house, uncommon in this part of Cornwall due to its identifiable early features, and despite 19th-century remodelling, significant early fabric and interesting details remain.