Trevales House

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SW 73 NW STITHIANS TREVALES

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Small country house. Circa mid C18, extended circa late C19. Granite ashlar walls at the front, dressed granite to extensions, otherwise painted rubble. Dry Delabole slate roofs; half-hipped over original house towards left, otherwise hipped and with coped or pedimented gables. Rendered brick stacks over either side of the principal part of the original house and at rear of extension, and there is a large external stack over a window bay at the right-hand end. Plan: Double depth plan. Original house has 2 reception rooms at the front: a parlour on the left and a former parlour on the right, remodelled in the C19 to make a 2 storey galleried hall and incorporating former central entrance hall. The original stair hall is between the large rear rooms with the original stone flagged kitchen on the left. There is an integral one room wide service wing on the left and there are 2 cellars: a large vaulted cellar under the left-hand side of the house and a smaller cellar under the stairs. Circa late C19 a large cross wing was added on the right of the C18 house. This deeper wing is 2 rooms deep and has projecting 2-storey bay windows. Exterior: 2 storeys, 1:3:1 bay south-south-west front. Left-hand bay is lower and is a coped gable end of the service wing. Next 3 bays are a symmetrical 3 window entrance front with central doorway. There is a plinth and parapet string and an ashlar parapet (extended in the C19 over the extension) but the parapet now forms the eaves of the roof, the wide window openings are spanned by very shallow keyed arches. Original panelled door and eared doorcase within circa early C20 glazed porch with low pitched gable and shaped barge board. The windows are circa late C18 paired 12-pane sashes with some original glass except for horned copy at ground floor left. Wide C19 wing projects forward on the right and has central 4 light mullioned window with side lights in 2 storey projecting bay surmounted by a triangular pediment with moulded cornice. There is a similar window bay to the right-hand return wall, lighting the rear room. Rear has 3 C18 paired sashes and one horned copy. Built out in front of former stair window is a large 4-light transommed window with round-arch-headed lights and coloured glass. Interior: Largely remodelled when extended and most of the features including plaster ceiling cornices, chimney-pieces and cantilevered gallery over the hall are of this period. Some C18 features survive however, including a dog-leg stair with closed string and column- turned balusters, stone flagged floor in the kitchen and brick vaulted cellars with their original storage compartments.

Listing NGR: SW7435035840

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