Trebarried Hall

Trebarried Hall

A large house of considerable architectural interest, built in rubble stone with a low-pitched slate roof and projecting end stacks featuring stone triple diagonal shafts. The building stands three storeys high across three bays, with a prominent two-storey front porch and a substantial cross-gabled rear stair wing that extends at right angles to the main range.

The south front shows evidence of significant alterations in its stonework, particularly to the upper floor. The fenestration comprises three cambered-headed 16-pane renewed sashes with stone voussoirs on the upper storey. The first floor has two larger 24-pane sashes with timber lintels and stone voussoirs, the left one positioned slightly left of the window directly above. The ground floor contains two renewed oak 3-light mullioned windows with leaded lights and hoodmoulds.

The centrepiece is a two-storey gabled porch with a stone-tiled roof and ornamental 19th-century pierced fretted bargeboards. The first floor of the porch contains a reused 16th-century 3-light stone-mullion window with roll-moulded mullions and four-centred arched lights, topped by a flat head and hoodmould. The broad stone doorway features plain chamfered jambs and a very flat Tudor-arched head with sunk spandrels, apparently constructed from two reused 16th-century window heads. The interior of the porch has stone flags, square joists, and a moulded inner doorway with a very flat Tudor-arched head and hollow-and-ovolo moulded jambs. At first-floor level, on each side of the porch, is a renewed 2-light oak mullion window with hoodmould.

The left end wall features a large raised chimneybreast with matching windows: a renewed oak 2-light attic window with hoodmould, a first-floor 24-pane sash, and a ground-floor renewed 2-light oak mullion window.

The right end wall also has a large raised chimneybreast with a distinctive construction: the left half is corbelled out from just above ground-floor level, while the right half is stepped forward and extends to ground level with a set-off on the line of corbels. To the left of the chimney is a recessed oak 2-light attic window. A large red brick stack of the service range projects to the right.

The service range, set back to the right, is one storey with attic accommodation and red brick end stacks. It comprises three bays with a centre gable containing a stone sill course beneath a small casement pair. The ground floor has long triple casements with timber lintels on each side of a centre door in a bead-moulded oak frame, also with a timber lintel. A loft window appears in the right end wall, and the rear wall has a door and casement pair. Behind the service range, a straight joint between rubble and red brick marks the junction with an added rear outshut. An outshut has been added to the rear left of the main house, containing one 16-pane sash window per floor.

The remarkable rear stair wing stands at right angles to the main range, with an external chimneybreast at its north end displaying triple diagonal shafts. The west side features a broad bargeboarded gable sheltering an extraordinary multi-storeyed arrangement of oak-mullion windows that light the stair. These comprise five levels: at the apex is an ovolo-moulded 2-light; below are two similar 2-lights with hoodmoulds positioned at main eaves level; further down is a fine central 4-light recessed chamfered mullion-and-transom window with mid-transom and hoodmould; below that, at half-level to the right, is an ovolo-moulded 2-light; then a central large ovolo-moulded 3-light with hoodmould; a small 2-light with hoodmould set only slightly lower to the right; and finally a basement low broad doorway with hoodmould. The north end has a renewed oak 3-light mullion window to the ground floor left with hoodmould. The chimneybreast is corbelled out on each side towards its top. The rear east face has a similar broad gable, but all its windows are set within cambered-headed surrounds of hard red brick dating from the late 19th or early 20th century. These comprise two 12-pane sashes to the upper floor, two long 24-pane sashes to the first floor, and ground-floor casement pair to the left with a triple casement to the right, set slightly lower. The head of a blocked basement opening appears beneath the left window.

Internally, the single ground-floor room features chamfered beams and end fireplaces. The west wall fireplace has chamfered stone jambs and lintel. Vaulted cellars lie beneath. The first floor contains a room with a 17th-century fireplace. The roof principals have canted feet to their trusses.

The main staircase is of Jacobean style, a dogleg arrangement in four flights with renewed pierced oak flat balusters and a massive moulded handrail. A moulded post at the foot of the stairs displays raised ornament, and a moulded oak doorway stands to the left.

On the ground floor, a recessed moulded wooden-framed doorway with square head is adjacent to a stone sill and head of a small blocked window. Nearby stands a large 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window stained with raddle. At the foot of the stair, a doorway cuts through a 3-light hollow-moulded mullion-and-transom window with diagonally-set bars and grooved transoms. The bottom newel of the stair rises to ceiling height as a post with planted moulding.

The first floor displays half-timber partitions. A fireplace with recessed cyme-moulded jambs is set within 18th-century panelling. The doorway to the room over the porch is ovolo-moulded. A gable fireplace features chamfered jambs with diagonal stops.

The top floor contains heavy timber-framed partitions, with evidence of an upper-cruck truss foot and clear indication that the front wall has been raised.