Trevella

Trevella is a gentry house, originally dating back to 1601, with substantial additions and alterations across several centuries. The main part of the house is roughcast rendered with concrete tile roofs, and features rendered end stacks, one with distinctive triple diagonal shafts, another small and rebuilt, with a double diagonal shaft chimney on the ridge of the porch gable. The house is L-shaped, incorporating a projecting broad gable to the left of the south front, bearing the date 1601. The gable has bargeboards and windows stepped to align with the staircase, all featuring hoodmoulds. A six-pane window sits in the gable apex, with nine-pane, small six-pane, and casement windows below. An old photograph suggests previous openings were in similar positions and sizes, but without the gable window; only the top left window and door were previously hooded, with the door itself blocked. A recessed wing has late 20th century six-pane and six-over-six-pane casement windows.

The north garden front presents a three-storey, three-window facade with paired casement windows and hoodmoulds, partially obscured by a lean-to addition. Subsequent additions include a single-storey, three-window range connecting the projecting south gable to a narrow gable dated 1987, featuring imitation stone mullion windows. A two-storey wing added in 1984 has a gabled porch on the south side of the original south gable. A further two-storey wing, also dated 1984, projects to the left on the north front, and an additional conservatory and gabled projection were added in 1996. A lean-to is recorded on the north front, dated 1648, and another wing, purportedly from 1881, was re-windowed in the late 20th century.

The interior retains a two-room plan with a plastered brick wall separating the parlour and hall. The porch and stair are located within the projection to the south of the hall, with a 20th-century addition filling in the angle with the porch block. A fireplace in the parlour has stone jambs and a massive oak lintel; two oak-framed doors lead to a stone cellar stair and an oak stair to the first floor. Four original beams retain chamfers and diagonal stops, one above the fireplace. In the hall, a single beam has an ogee stop, and another fireplace has a massive stone lintel. A doorway in the south wall leads to the porch and a later opening was cut through from the porch into the southwest stair tower. This stair tower features an oak doorcase with a shaped head reminiscent of designs by Fox and Raglan, and a broad, winding oak stair rises around a massive tapered timber mast reaching to the second floor, standing 26 feet high with a 20-foot diameter base. The first and second floors each feature further shaped doorheads, and the top of the mast appears to be missing treads, indicating a lost flight of stairs leading to a loft. Two further shaped doorheads are located on the north end landing of the winding stair from the parlour, one of which is a 20th-century addition.