The Coach House, Including Courtyard Walls and Gate Piers Immediately North West of Trewinnard Manor Farmhouse

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ST ERTH TREWINNARD LANE SW 53 SW 6/259 The Coach House, including court- - yard walls and gate piers immediately north west of Trewinnard Manor Farmhouse GV II*

Coach house with former servant's accommodation, adjoining stables, mounting block and front courtyard walls and entrance gate piers. Circa mid C18 but rear wing may be older. Built for the Hawkins family. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Main steep roof is grouted scantle slate (asbestos slate on rear slope) with hip at either end and central pedimented gable at the front. Some C18 crested ridge tiles survive on this roof and on roof of former stables set back on left. Rear wing has steep roof at lower level, replaced with asbestos slate; other roofs are grouted scantle slate. Brick chimneys at either end, over cross wall, left of middle and over cross wall of rear wing. Chamfered wooden lintels over openings of rear wing. Plan: Overall irregular reversed h-plan. Front range is a symmetrical 3:2:3 bay plan with 2 central coachhouse broken forward and identical 2-room-plan servants accommodation on either side with entrance lobbies between the rooms. Adjoining at an angle to the rear, left of middle, is a 2-room-plan service wing, possibly originally partly stables. At right angles left of the rear left-hand corner of the wing is a single-storey pair of stables. Adjoining the right-hand side of the coach house range is an C18 single storey stables with rear openings. Circa early C19 stables behind. Exterior: 2-storeys. Symmetrical 3:2:3 bay north-east front with granite ashlar plinth. Middle bays are broken forward and surmounted by a moulded triangular pediment. Pair of wide carriage doorways have round arches with projecting keystones springing from a plain band. Left and right of the coach houses are identical 3 window fronts with central doorways. Taller ground floor window, flat arches with projecting keystones. Old panelled doors with overlights. Original C18 hornless sashes with thick glazing bars to 3 openings in the left-hand front (over doorway and right of doorway). The other windows are horned copies with thin glazing bars. Integral stables adjoin on the right-hand side of this front and there is a mounting block at the junction. Rear wing has 3 window south east front and has C18 12-pane 2-light casement window at first floor left. Interior: Left-hand bays only inspected. This part is largely intact with most of its C18 carpentry and joinery including 2-panel doors. A C17 lead-coated cannon ball was found during repairs. Surrounding a rectangular cobbled courtyard at the front are the original C18 rubble walls with granite copings. At the north west side is a wide gateway with square-on- plan gate piers with moulded caps. A fine early C18 coach, known as 'The Trewinnard Coach' is preserved in Truro Museum. The coach is reputed to have been bought by the Hawkins family from a Spanish ambassador and used until 1777. From then it was stored in this building until 1919 when it was restored by Messrs. Fuller and Co. of Bristol. Sources: Truro Museum.

Listing NGR: SW5460534031

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