Trewheela Farmhouse

Trewheela Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, with alterations around the mid 19th century, and 20th-century changes. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite quoins, and has a slurried scantle slate hipped roof with ridge tiles, partially covered with asbestos slate. A gable end faces right, featuring a granite rubble stack, and there is a brick shaft stack on the left side.

Originally, the farmhouse comprised a lower end room, heated by a gable end stack at the right end, with a passage at the left. Around the mid 17th century, a two-storey porch was likely added to the front of the passage. In the mid 19th century, the upper left-hand end was replaced by a two-room cross-wing, featuring a larger front room heated by a left-side stack, and a small, unheated dairy at the rear. A straight staircase was inserted into the passage; the rear wall of the passage exhibits a slight curve, potentially indicating the location of an earlier stair. Around the same time, a small lean-to pantry was added to the left side of the porch, and a lean-to was added at the right end.

The exterior is two storeys with an asymmetrical front, incorporating a two-storey porch and one bay to each side. The porch has a hipped roof and a granite doorway with a two-centred arch, hollow-moulded with run-out stops and a hood mould, leading to a 20th-century door. A single-storey lean-to is located to the left side, with a casement window. To the left of the porch, the 19th-century range has a 20th-century window at first floor. To the right, there are 20th-century windows at both ground and first floor. Attached to the right is a single-storey lean-to with a 20th-century window to the front and a 20th-century door on the right side, built around a large external stack. At the rear, a four-pane sash window is present at ground floor, and a two-light casement at first floor on the left; the gable end of the 19th-century wing features a 19th-century 12-pane sash window at ground and first floor.

Inside, the surviving 17th-century room has a concealed fireplace, formerly containing an oven to the left side. The doorway to the chamber above the porch at first floor has a wooden ovolo-moulded frame with scroll stops. At the same level, the feet of the principal rafters are boxed in. The roof structure showcases roughly hewn trusses with irregular shaped principal rafters, cambered collars halved to the principals; it originally had threaded purlins, and one chamfered purlin remains.