Tredown

Tredown is a farmhouse with origins dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, which has undergone extensive alterations and partial rebuilding in the late 20th century. The front features whitewashed cob rendered over stone rubble footings, while the rear is rendered cob. The roof is slate, gabled at the right end and hipped at the left end. A rear lateral stack, which heats the hall, projects with one set-off, and there is a large projecting stone stack at the right gable end with a cob chimney shaft, along with a projecting rendered stack at the left gable end with a brick shaft.

Originally, the layout consisted of three rooms and a through passage, with a two-storey porch and a front left wing for the heated inner room, which also had heating at the lower end. The partition wall to the passage and the original porch doorway have likely been removed during the late 20th century renovations. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window front, featuring an approximately central gabled two-storey porch and a front left projection that may have been a stair turret with a roof hipped to the front. There is a late 20th-century doorway on the right return of the porch, and the windows on the ground floor are three- and four-light late 20th-century designs in altered embrasures, with diamond-leaded panes and flat brick arches.

Inside, the hall fireplace has hollow-chamfered granite jambs and an ovolo-moulded timber lintel with ogee stops. The rest of the house has been thoroughly modernised, and the roof space has not been inspected.