Trelawn

Trelawn is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century or earlier, significantly refurbished around 1820. The exterior is colourwashed rendered cob with a thatched roof, gabled at the ends. Brick chimney shafts rise from the left end and the rear left.

Originally part of a larger house, later divided and with a central cottage demolished in the 1950s, Trelawn now forms an ‘L’ shape with a single depth. The front entrance leads into an early 19th-century stair hall on the left, with a principal room to the right. A service wing to the right was likely an 18th-century barn, subsequently converted into unheated rooms and a carpenter’s shop, and is partly weatherboarded.

The front facade has a narrow one-window width, featuring a 20th-century front door with a tiled porch and a 19th-century 16-pane sash window on the first floor. The inner wing has a ground floor and first-floor 2-light timber casement, followed by weatherboarded sections with 1-light first-floor windows and a 3-light window to the right. The right return of the main block has 19th-century sash windows, and steps lead to the loft of the former barn. The rear elevation comprises timber casements and an early 19th-century French window with glazing bars.

The interior details date largely from the 1820s, including a stick baluster dog-leg staircase with a turned newel post. The principal room has panelled doors with reeded doorcases and rosettes, segmental arched recesses with reeded surrounds and rosettes, and a chimneypiece with a mantel shelf on decorated brackets.

The roof of the main block was not inspected, but the former barn contains pegged collar rafter trusses, likely dating to the 18th century, with collars halved and pegged onto the principals. The house forms part of a group of three thatched houses located behind a newer estate and was formerly on the main road through Kenton.