Trixes

WEMBWORTHY BRIDGE REEVE SS 61 SE 1/71 Trixes - GV II House, former farmhouse. Probably mid C16 with late C16-early C17 extension, refurbished and rearranged internally circa 1975. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble and cob stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing east with former service end room at left (southern) end. Ivy cottage (q.v.) adjoining former inner room at right (northern) end. Inner room is unheated, hall has projecting front lateral stack and service room has end stack. Late C16-early C17 kitchen block with end stack projecting to rear of hall. 2 storeys. Irregular 4-window front of C19 flat-faced mullion windows with rectangular panes of leaded glass and including some C20 replacements. To left of stack front of passage now has C20 door and side light and contemporary wide porch with monoptich slate roof. Stack of explosed stone rubble has lower section of original chimney shaft, now extended with C19 and C20 brick. Roof is gable-ended. Interior was much altered circa 1975. At that time oak plank-and-muntin screens at either end of hall were removed with crossbeam there. Both fireplaces of stone rubble with plain oak lintels, probably C17. Full height cob crosswall on lower side of passage. Roof over hall and inner room is original. It is carried on 2 probably raised true crucks with 2 sets of threaded purlins and ridge. Truss over hall has cambered collar. That to north was closed at beginning, the infill removed circa 1975. Hall roof is smoke-blackened indicating that hall was open to roof and heated by open hearth fire. Roof over service room and extension inaccessible. Kitchen extension has late C16-early C17 axial beam, soffit- chamfered with step stops and a large cob and rubble fireplace with plain soffit- chamfered oak lintel. Shown as Tricks Farm on OS.

Listing NGR: SS6617313316