Trevella

Gentry house, C20 roughcast render with C20 concrete tiles to roofs. Rendered end stacks to original range, formerly stone, that to E with triple diagonal shafts, that to W small and rebuilt, also a double diagonal shaft chimney on ridge of porch gable. Three-storeys, L-plan, with projecting broad gable to left of S front, this dated 1601. All windows late C20. Projecting gable has C20 bargeboards and windows stepped to line of stairs, all with C20 hoodmoulds. Square 6-pane in apex, then 9-pane to right, small 6-pane left, 6-6-6-pane casement right, 4-4-pane casement left and finally ground floor small square 6-pane left and door right in original Tudor-arched stone surround. Old photograph shows openings in same positions and mostly same size but no gable window, hoodmould only to top left window and door blocked. Set back wing just has C20 6-pane and 6-6-6-pane casements to first floor left over C20 flat-roofed ground floor addition. N garden front is 3-storey, 3-window regular range of C20 paired casements with hoodmoulds, ground floor centre and left obscured by added lean-to. C20 additions include: a single storey 3-window range connects the projecting S gable to a narrow gable dated 1987, all with imitation stone mullion windows, the gable projecting from a 2-storey E end added wing. Another similar 2-storey added wing at W end, dated 1984, has gabled porch on S to left of original S gable. The N front of the house has a C20 lean-to dated 1648 and a 2-storey 2-window wing projecting to left said to date from 1881, but re-windowed as elsewhere. This has N end later C20 conservatory and E side paired gabled addition dated 1996.

Two-room plan with plastered brick wall between parlour and hall. Porch and stair in projection to S of hall, C20 addition S of parlour filling in angle with porch block. In the parlour a fireplace with stone jambs and massive oak lintel. Two doors with oak frames and Tudor-arched heads to left, one to stone winding stair to cellar, the other to oak winding stair to first floor. Four beams with chamfers and diagonal stops, one over fireplace, two in room, one over partition. In the hall, one beam with ogee stop to chamfer and fireplace with massive stone lintel. Opening on S into porch and C20 opening cut through from porch into SW stair tower. This has an oak doorcase with shaped head (similar to type O in Fox & Raglan 3 Fig. 21). Stair itself is of oak, unusually broad, winding around a massive tapering timber mast reaching up to second floor level. Mast is some 26' high and 20' diameter at the base. At first floor another shaped door head (similar to Allt-y-bella example Fox & Raglan Fig 6) and two more at second floor. Chamfered surrounds and ogee stops. Missing treads at top of mast indicate lost flight up to loft. Two shaped doorheads also at N end landing of winding stair from parlour, one doorhead raised in C20.