Treberren Farmhouse

Treberren Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse built of random sandstone rubble, partly exposed, partly white-washed and partly rendered, with blue slate roofs. It has an irregular T-shaped plan formed by a 2-unit, 2-storey front range on a north-south axis facing west, with a 1-unit, 2-storey rear wing offset strongly to the south. A short extension of 2 low storeys is attached to the east gable wall.

The west front (which appears to have had render recently removed) has a doorway flanked by 2 windows on each floor, all collectively offset to the right. All three ground-floor openings have segmental-arched brick heads, but both first-floor windows have straight wooden lintels. The doorway has an 18th-century panelled door protected by a small open-work gabled canopy of curved brackets. The window to its left is wider than the others and now has renewed small-paned glazing; all the other windows have small 19th-century 2-light casements with a horizontal glazing bar in the centre of each light. There is a large chimney at the left (north) gable and a small one at the other gable, both rendered and painted white.

The left (north) gable wall, which is white-washed, has a small square stairwindow near the rear corner and a window of similar character near the front corner of the upper floor. The right-hand (south) gable, which is rendered, has a small 2-light casement offset towards the rear at ground floor. The rear wall of the main range has a renewed 19th-century casement at ground floor close to the junction with the wing, and a 3-light wooden mullioned window above with slender diamond-section mullions. This side of the wing has a similar 3-light window at ground floor with a long wooden lintel; a small renewed 2-light casement above that; and a former doorway at the junction with the main range, the lower part bricked up and the upper containing an inserted 2-light casement. The extension attached to the east gable has a large segmental-headed doorway at ground floor and a low 2-light casement above. On its south side the extension has renewed 3-light casements on each floor, and there is a similar window at ground floor of the wing.

The ground floor of the main range has 3 stop-chamfered lateral beams of relatively light scantling and relatively closely-set, and a lower-end partition beam with continuous mortices of a former plank-and-muntin partition. At the north gable wall is a deep chimney breast containing a large fireplace with a massive oak lintel; to the left of this a recess about 1 metre wide; and to the right a doorway to an oak-block spiral staircase which continues from the chamber floor above to the roof space. In the south-east corner of this room is a triangular-headed doorway with a massive chamfered oak doorcase leading into the rear wing. The rear wing also has a lower-end partition beam with continuous vacant mortices, a stop-chamfered lateral beam, and a deep chimney breast at the east gable wall, with a back-door passage to its left and an altered spiral staircase to its right.

At first floor the front range has a very fine elmwood plank-and-muntin partition with bead-and-flat decoration to the front, and at its left end a Tudor-arched doorway with original strap-hung door.

In the roof space the main range has 2 collar trusses and the rear wing has one collar truss and one open truss. Both have common rafters "on the flat" pegged to the purlins, and massive board floors.