Trevilla And Adjoining Kitchen Garden Walls

Trevilla is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, likely remodeled in the early 19th century, with further alterations and additions made in the early 20th century. The building is rendered, probably over stone rubble, and features a gable-ended scantle-slate roof with rendered end stacks. The layout consists of a two-room central-entrance plan with integral end stacks facing southeast, and a wing projecting at the rear of the left-hand end, also with an integral end stack.

Early 20th-century changes included the addition of a verandah at the front, which may incorporate some late 19th-century materials, the widening of the ground-floor front windows, and the addition of a short wing to the west. The garden wall adjoining the left-hand end of the house encloses a roughly square kitchen garden.

The exterior features a plinth, plat band, and parapeted gable ends, with a symmetrical three-bay front. The early 19th-century windows include sixteen-pane glazing bar sashes and ground-floor tripartite glazing bar sashes, all with stone cills. The central doorway has a 19th-century five-panelled door with a beaded wooden frame, a semi-circular overlight, and staff-moulded reveals. Above the door is an 18th-century bolection-moulded stone sundial (minus gnomon) with a painted inscription, likely from the 20th century, stating: "NOTHING MATTERS HALF/AS MUCH AS YOU THINK IT DOES."

The glazed lean-to verandah is supported by fluted cast-iron columns with scrolled capitals and barley-sugar twisted bases, featuring low cast-iron railings at the front. A tall margin-light glazing bar sash at the rear illuminates the staircase. The kitchen garden walls are constructed from roughly squared stone rubble and cob, featuring a wrought-iron gateway on the south side with a wooden lintel, and two gateways on the right-hand (east) side, one of which has a boarded door. The interior of the house has not been inspected. An old photograph from the Beaford Archive, likely taken in the early 20th century, shows the house before the alterations to the ground-floor windows and the addition of the verandah and the short wing to the left.