Trutes

Trutes is a house located in South Milton, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a probable early 18th-century addition. The building features rendered stone rubble walls and a thatched roof, which is gabled at the right end and hipped at the left. There are three rubble stacks: one axial with a brick shaft, one projecting from the right gable end, and one at the rear lateral.

Originally, the house had a two-room-and-through-passage plan, with each room heated by a fireplace in the end wall. The left-hand end room, which has a rear lateral stack, was likely added in the early 18th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with six windows. Most of the windows are late 20th-century small-paned two-light casements, except for a four-light bow window on the ground floor to the right and a two-light mid-20th-century metal-frame casement to the left. There are also two 20th-century stable-type doors under a thatch hood: one to the right of centre leading into the original passage and another into the addition at the left end, which has a different roof pitch compared to the main part.

Inside, the fireplaces in the principal rooms have chamfered wooden lintels, and there is a chamfered ceiling beam in the right-hand room. The first floor shows the unsophisticated feet of straight principals, which likely indicate a 19th-century reroofing.