Treator Farmhouse and Garden Walls to East

Details

PADSTOW TREATOR
SW 9075-9175
8/160 Treator Farmhouse and garden walls
to east

GV II

House, now farmhouse and garden walls to east. Circa early to mid C17, probably
built for the Peter family. Stone rubble, partly rendered. Slate and asbestos slate
roofs with gable ends to range facing east, gable ends to parallel west range and a
lower roof to the short range in between on the north. Brick end stacks.
Plan: The house was originally probably of an overall U shaped plan with 3 rooms
across the north (rear), heated by lateral stacks and two 1-room plan front wings,
projecting to the south, heated by end stacks. It is uncertain where the original
entrance and passage was situated. In circa early C18 the central part of the main
north range was remodelled, the central room (now the dairy) being partitioned and
reduced in size with a main early C18 stair inserted directly to the west (left) and
an early C18 back stair to the east (right). Possibly contemporary with this a
corridor was inserted running from the side entrance in the west front (on left),
along the south side of the main range linking with the 2 staircases and the existing
central entrance in the south front. In circa mid C19 the east (right hand) side of
the house was remodelled and refronted with a symmetrical 4-window garden front.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 4-window east garden front, rendered with raised
quoins and string course. Four C19 12-pane sashes on ground floor and 4 above. North
rear elevation to road has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows with a deep
chamfered lintel with straight cut stops to the left (east) and ovolo moulded lintel
with stepped and tongue stops to the right (west). C19 outshut extension on the west
elevation and C20 glazed porch extension on the south front.
Interior: Several ovolo moulded doorframes with stepped and tongue stops including
at least 2 on the ground floor and at least 3 on the first floor of the west range.
Central range has an early C18 dog-leg main stair and dog-leg back stair with turned
balusters and deep moulded and ramped rail. The C17 ceiling beams in the north west
room are chamfered and stopped whilst the ceiling to the east range appears to have
been altered in the C19. Roof structure not inspected.
High stone rubble garden wall with slate coping on north side of garden to east of
house.
The Barton of Trenearne with Treator, Tregerryn, Treniow and Trelowsa were acquired
by the Peter family through a marriage of William Peter with Jane, daughter of Sir
Roger Arundell in the C16. In 1579 Thomas Peter was given these estates and he first
settled at Trenearne (qv) then moving to Treator making it the residence of the
descendents of the Peter family for about 200 years.
Polsue, J. Lake's Parochial History of the Country of Cornwall, 1872, reprinted
1974.


Listing NGR: SW9054275191

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Sources

Books and journals
Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872)

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