Tredomen Court and attached barn

Tredomen Court and Attached Barn

A substantial house of two storeys and attic with attached barn, built in rubble stone with a slate roof. The main house is four bays wide with roughcast end stacks, its front elevation featuring cross-windows with opening lower casements except for the three-light window to the right of the door and a blocked window above the door. Timber lintels frame the lower openings while those at upper level sit under the eaves, with stone sills throughout. The entrance is marked by a four-panel oak door with four-pane overlight, set in an oak chamfered and stopped surround. A 19th-century gabled timber slated hood with Gothic pierced bargeboards shelters the entrance, and two gabled dormers with casement pairs pierce the roof.

The left end wall is roughcast with two small 20th-century windows to the ground floor. The rear comprises a 20th-century lean-to on the ground floor right, opening into a painted rubble stone rear wing with a roughcast stack at the west end. This wing is two storeys with mostly 20th-century metal windows on the south side. Behind the main house stands a tall painted roughcast side-wall stack in the angle to the north of the rear wing, and a deep added outshut dairy to the left with a boarded north-end window.

To the north is a long barn range with a slightly lower roof. The barn front shows two tiers of two loops, a high door entry, then two bays with tall boarded openings divided by a masonry pier. A straight joint marks the transition to an added north range which has two small loops to the left of a plank door and a two-light window to the right, with a north-end loft door. The rear of the main barn mirrors the front arrangement.

Interior of Main House

The entrance passage is flagstone-floored, with a two-panel boarded door to the left and another to the right, both in beaded frames. Two principal rooms flank the hall, with a third room at the north end where the staircase occupies the northwest corner—this northern end appears to have been altered, as a large chimney at the north end is now blocked.

The south end room features two large squared beams with a third on the partition. A late 17th-century oak panelled dado lines three sides, and a big shouldered fireplace surround dominates the room. A deep window reveal sits to the right of the fireplace. A plank door in a beaded frame provides access to a rear cellar-room, the doorway widened to accommodate barrels. A massive timber sits in the west wall. A wide doorway at the end of the entrance passage, fitted with a plank door, opens into the rear wing.

The centre main room has a flagstone floor and a lateral fireplace on the west wall with a massive oak lintel. Two chamfered large beams span the space. Cupboards to the left of the fireplace have panelled doors. The north end partition wall contains two plank doors and a third in the corner leading to the understair space. The three-light front window is oak with ogee moulding dating to the late 17th century and features an oak window seat.

The small northeast corner room contains another chamfered beam and a low cupboard door opening into the understair area, where the jamb of a Tudor-arched door or fireplace is exposed.

The rear wing contains a kitchen with a south door, two large beams, and a west fireplace. The dairy to the north has slate dairying slabs, a blocked north window, one west window, and shutters. Rear stairs with 19th-century square balusters run up to the rear of the main range. The rear range features bolted later roof trusses.

First Floor

Evidence of alterations is visible at the southwest end, where a piece of chamfered and scroll-stopped beam with bead-moulded uprights has been built into the wall south of the entry from the rear wing. The entry is stone-flagged and the floor level is lower in both south end rooms. Oak floorboards are present throughout. A twisted beam appears at the south end; a second beam is doubled on the partition; a third is massive, chamfered with run-out stop; a fourth sits on a partition; and a fifth rises above the landing of a disused main stair in the northwest corner. This stair is of dogleg type with closed string and square balusters, the balustrade apparently dating to the 19th century, though the structure is likely older.

Attic

Very large oak collar trusses span the attic, the third bearing a partition and plank door. The trusses are 17th-century with chamfering on the underside of collars and lower edges of principals. The end three bays are plastered.

Barn Interior

The south end wall features a massive chimney breast stepped inward three times on the left. Seven tie-beam-and-collar trusses support the structure. A loft occupies the north end section, and marks of a removed wall between the barn and north section are visible. The north section has 19th-century pine joists to the loft floor.