Description

ST NEWLYN EAST
SW 85 NE
2/12 Trevessa farmhouse

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Farmhouse, early C18 and mid C19 probably for Capt Botallick. Stone, slate
hung, and scantle slate roof.
Plan: Earlier build remains at east end, remainder demolished for large
2-storey block with through hall. 2 rooms deep and gable stacks, probably
when adapted for mine captain's house for local silver-lead mines.
Central entrance converted to 16-pane sash window, and other windows to
both floors all 16-pane sashes. Brick stacks. Earlier end has casement
windows and hipped roof. Stair window on gable end 4 panes wide with
intersecting glazing bars. Lean-to along rear, whitewashed, containing
garage and service rooms.
John Trevisa, 1340 - 1402, scholar under patronage of Lord Thomas
Berkeley, was born here. His works include 'de Regimine Principum', 'De
Proprietatibus Rerum' and 'Polychronicon', and is said to have worked with
Langland on Piers the Ploughman.

(c/f Eric Gethyn Jones, 'Trevisa of Berkeley', Alan Sutton (1978) and
forthcoming work by Professor David Fowler of Seattle)

Listing NGR: SW8674955541

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26430238

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)