Treskinnick Cottage

Treskinnick Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior is colourwashed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that is gabled at the ends. A large projecting gable end stack is located on the left side, featuring offsets and a brick shaft, along with a cloam oven. Another brick chimney rises from the ridge. The house was originally arranged with two or three rooms above an original or cross passage; a stair was later inserted into the passage, and the original front door into the passage has been blocked. A C19 addition, with a slightly higher hipped roof, was likely built over an earlier parlour on the right end, and a further addition under a lower roof extends from the right end. Lean-to and outshut additions are present at the rear, and a single-storey thatched room with a hipped roof sits at the rear left. The front of the house has three windows. Ground floor windows have been enlarged in the 20th century. The former door into the passage is covered by a hipped slated canopy above a C20 fixed window. The ground floor window on the left is large and has C20 timber mullions with four panes. The window to the right of the passage is similar, and a smaller four-pane window is one from the right. The ground floor window on the right is also C20. On the first floor, the left-hand windows are C20 casements, two panes per light. The right-hand window is a C19 horizontal timber sash with six panes. A C19 two-light casement in the middle, also with six panes per light, may also be from the 19th century. The left-hand ground floor room displays exposed ceiling beams of heavy scantling.