Description

TINTAGEL
SX 08 NE
4/150 East Truas Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Circa early C20. Slate stone rubble and quartz. Rag slate roof with
gable ends and sprocketted eaves. Rendered brick stack on left hand gable end and
axial stone rubble stack backing onto right hand side of stair hall.
2 room single depth plan with entrance to left of centre leading directly into a wide
stair hall. The smaller left hand room is heated by a gable end stack and the larger
right hand room by an axial stack which backs onto the right hand side of the stair
hall. The ground slopes down to the right. Vernacular Revival Style.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front facing an internal courtyard with lower North
Truas Farmhouse to right (qv) and small outbuilding opposite (qv outbuilding to east
of North Truas Farmhouse). The partly glazed plank entrance door is to left of
centre with a 1-light and 2-light casement to left and a 3-light casement to right,
all with glazing bars and dressed stone flat arches. On the first floor are 3 circa
late C20 casements without glazing bars.
The lower right hand gable end faces the road and has a 4-light casement on the
ground and first floor with glazing bars and dressed stone flat arches and a reset
possibly C16 1-light greenstone window in the gable end. Rear elevation has 3 half
dormers with raking roofs.
Interior has an ashlar stone stair in the central stair hall. Interior not
accessible.
Forms part of interesting group with contemporary farmhouse probably built by the
same architect on north west (qv North Farmhouse, Truas) and contemporary outbuilding
opposite to north (qv outbuilding to east of North Truas Farmhouse). Each of these
buildings face inwards onto a grassed courtyard. To the west is the earlier
farmhouse which is now disused (qv Disused Farmhouse to south west of North and East
Farmhouses at Truas).

Listing NGR: SX0695987411

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436245

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)