Treleague Farmhouse

Treleague Farmhouse is a building of probable 17th-century origin, possibly incorporating part of a mid-16th-century structure, and with significant alterations in recent times. It is constructed with a rubble stone base and plastered cob upper walls. The steeply pitched roof is covered in cement-washed slate, with brick chimneys set into the gabled ends. The farmhouse’s layout has been altered to a three-cell plan, incorporating a wide hallway and a slight projection housing a staircase at the rear.

The main facade is long and asymmetrical, with a four-window front. The windows are mostly modern replacements, consisting of large two-light and three-light casements with glazing bars on the ground floor, flanking a partly glazed 20th-century double door. A two-light French window is located to the right. The first floor features four two-light casements with glazing bars. An approximately mid-19th-century one-and-a-half storey extension is attached to the left gable end, built of rubble stone and with a hipped slate roof. A projecting stone stack with a brick chimney is on the right-hand gable end of the extension. At the rear is a four-light granite mullioned window with a cavetto moulded central mullion and hollow chamfers to the flanking mullions. The late 19th-century staircase has a geometric curved design with square balusters and a moulded rail.

The site was granted to monks of the Abbey of Beaulieu in 1142 and later sold following the dissolution of the monasteries. Detailed records relating to the property are preserved in the Beaulieu Estate library in Hampshire.