Trewern

Trewern is a house dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations in the early 18th century, and associated with the Warren family. The house is constructed of rubble stone, formerly whitewashed, with slate roofs, stone end stacks and a front wall lateral stack. It has a three-unit plan, two storeys and an attic. The front is gabled, with a two-storey-and-attic porch and a gabled rear stair tower.

The long, five-bay front has narrow 24-pane sashes on the upper floor and wider 12-pane sashes on the ground floor. A lateral stack is situated between the second and third bays. A modern window is present on the ground floor in the third bay; previously, a lean-to extended from the porch at this point. Windows have rendered lintels and rough slate sills. The porch features a Tudor-arched entry with stone voussoirs, a first-floor 24-pane sash with a moulded oak lintel, the moulding slightly wider than the current window, and a rough slate dripstone. The attic has a similar 24-pane sash, but was windowless in early 20th-century photographs. A stone gable finial tops the roof. Inside the porch are three chamfered beams, stone lateral seats, a narrow slit window, and a massive plank door with an ovolo-ogee moulded frame and carved stops, incorporating a drawbar hole. A lean-to has been added to the right end wall.

The rear of the house has a shorter roof pitch, suggesting rebuilding, with a central gabled stair tower and a two-window range on each side. A glazed lean-to is located to the left of the stair gable. The stair gable has a 9-pane attic sash and an 18-pane landing light, both with cambered heads. Three 20th-century windows are on the first floor to the left, with one 12-pane sash to the first floor right, and a matching 12-pane sash to the ground floor below. Embedded in the walling near the right corner is broken, re-used stone bearing a biblical inscription (11 Peter v.5).

A retaining wall at the front of the house contains a stone inscribed 'Blt by John Warren Esq 1710', likely from a demolished lean-to.

The interior features seven large ovolo-moulded ceiling beams in the centre and west rooms, along with moulded oak doorways similar to the porch doorway on three sides of the former hall’s central room. There’s a plank door to the rear, leading to a cellar, and later panelled doors to the east and west doorways. A front wall chimney has been filled. A wall separating the centre hall and former west kitchen appears to be a later insertion, as it does not extend fully across the room, the rest being panelled. A large timber lintel frames the fireplace at the west end, accompanied by a chamfered beam and stone jambs. The east end parlour has plastered beams. A mid-20th century staircase is present.

The first floor has extensive early 19th-century fielded panelling, bolection moulded doorcases, and 6-panel doors. Panelled shutters are also present. A semi-elliptical arch leads to a corridor running west, featuring a fielded panelled wall on the south side. A 17th-century doorcase leads to the room above the porch. One pane of the sash window east of the porch contains a 18th-century rhyme, apparently a response to an invitation to tea, etched onto an adjoining pane that has since been lost, and dated 23.4.1723 according to Major F. Jones. The attic is said to retain remnants of an early to mid-18th-century staircase with fluted paired column newels and a ramped rail.