The Coach House, Including Courtyard Walls And Gate Piers Immediately North West Of Trewinnard Manor Farmhouse

The Coach House, including courtyard walls and gate piers immediately north west of Trewinnard Manor Farmhouse

Coach house with former servant's accommodation, adjoining stables, mounting block and front courtyard walls and entrance gate piers. Built around the mid-18th century for the Hawkins family, though the rear wing may be older. The building is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings.

The main steep roof is grouted scantle slate (with asbestos slate on the rear slope) with hips at either end and a central pedimented gable at the front. Some 18th-century crested ridge tiles survive on this roof and on the roof of the former stables set back on the left. The rear wing has a steep roof at a lower level, replaced with asbestos slate, while other roofs are grouted scantle slate. Brick chimneys are positioned at either end, over a cross wall, to the left of the middle, and over a cross wall of the rear wing. The rear wing features chamfered wooden lintels over its openings.

The plan is an irregular reversed H-shape. The front range forms a symmetrical 3:2:3 bay arrangement with two central coach house bays broken forward and identical two-room-plan servant's accommodation on either side, with entrance lobbies between the rooms. Adjoining at an angle to the rear, left of the middle, is a two-room-plan service wing, possibly originally partly used as stables. At right angles left of the rear left-hand corner of the wing is a single-storey pair of stables. An 18th-century single-storey stables adjoins the right-hand side of the coach house range with rear openings. Early 19th-century stables are positioned behind.

The building is two storeys high. The symmetrical 3:2:3 bay north-east front has a granite ashlar plinth. The middle bays are broken forward and surmounted by a moulded triangular pediment. A pair of wide carriage doorways have round arches with projecting keystones springing from a plain band. To the left and right of the coach houses are identical three-window fronts with central doorways. The taller ground-floor windows have flat arches with projecting keystones. Old panelled doors with overlights are fitted. Original 18th-century hornless sashes with thick glazing bars are present to three openings in the left-hand front (over the doorway and to the right of the doorway). The other windows are horned copies with thin glazing bars. Integral stables adjoin on the right-hand side of this front, and there is a mounting block at the junction. The rear wing has a three-window south-east front and features an 18th-century 12-pane two-light casement window at first floor left.

The left-hand bays have been inspected and are largely intact with most of their 18th-century carpentry and joinery, including two-panel doors. A 17th-century lead-coated cannon ball was found during repairs.

The building surrounds a rectangular cobbled courtyard at the front, enclosed by the original 18th-century rubble walls with granite copings. At the north-west side is a wide gateway with square-on-plan gate piers with moulded caps.

A fine early 18th-century coach, known as 'The Trewinnard Coach', is preserved in Truro Museum. The coach is reputed to have been purchased by the Hawkins family from a Spanish ambassador and used until 1777. It was then stored in this building until 1919, when it was restored by Messrs Fuller and Co. of Bristol.