Gatehouse And Adjoining Courtyard Walls Immediately In Front Of Trenethick Barton Farmhouse

The gatehouse and adjoining courtyard walls in front of Trenethick Barton Farmhouse date back to the 16th century and were built for the Hill family. The structure features granite elvan and killas rubble walls, with a granite ashlar gatehouse that has granite dressings. It has a grouted scantle slate roof with gable ends and stepped copings on the walls. The gatehouse is small and rectangular in shape, flanked by high walls. It has a wide gateway on the ground floor and a small guardroom above, accessible via a steep flight of granite steps against the inside of the courtyard wall.

The two-storey gatehouse has a wide, 4-centred arched doorway with a hoodmould on the ground floor, featuring old doors that are likely from the 18th or early 19th century. Above the doorway, the granite ashlar front jetties out on a dressed granite corbel table. There is a central, complete 3-light mullioned window with a hoodmould, and beneath the window is the Hill coat of arms. The walls on either side of the gatehouse are very high and ramp down at both ends. This gatehouse once overlooked the former main highway, which is now disused, and is considered one of the most interesting 16th-century domestic buildings in Cornwall. The interior has not been inspected.