Description

SW 72 NW CONSTANTINE

8/62 Treviades Barton including garden
area walls adjoining south
10.10.85
II*

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa late C16, remodelled in circa late C18. Granite
rubble with dressed granite quoins, lintels and stacks. Slate roof with gabled ends;
the left (west) and right (east) ends are slightly lower and have grouted scantle
slates; rear range has half-hipped end to west. Two dressed granite axial stacks and
one stack at left gable end, all with moulded caps and drips; the right end stack
rebuilt in red brick. The rear range has a gable end stack to right and two rear
lateral stacks, that to left is very large and has slated set-offs.
Plan: Courtyard plan with a parallel kitchen service range at the rear (north)
linked to the main front range (south) by a short rear right hand wing to the east
and wall which forms the fourth side of a small courtyard. The plan of the main
front range was altered in the late C18 when it had four rooms, the 2 centre rooms
separated by a central cross-passage, which led from the front doorway to a stair
hall at the back of the centre rooms. The passage partitions have been removed in
C20 to form one large central room with a fireplace at each end. The 2 end rooms
occupy the full depth of the front range and each has a gable end fireplace. At the
back of the left hand (west) room there is what may be a blocked stair tower or
perhaps a smoking chamber.
The rear kitchen-service range has a large fireplace at the right (east) end and 2
other lateral stacks at the back.
Exterior: 2-storeys. South front of the main range is 5 windows wide and
asymmetrical; the central 3-window range has raised eaves. Late C19 or early C20
sashes with vertical glazing bars only and granite lintels and quoins. The ground
and first floor of the right hand end of the front has original 3-light chamfered
mullion windows with later casements. Central doorway with circa late C19 or C20
gabled porch and C20 glazed door. The rear (north) elevation of the main range
facing the courtyard has small gable to right which may be a stair turret or perhaps
smoking chamber and a multipane stair window to the left.
The south front elevation of the back range has asymmetrical fenestration of sashes
and casements and to the right on the first floor a circa early C19 19-pane
horizontally sliding sash. The rear (north) elevation of the back range has 2
lateral stacks, that to the right projects and is very large and has slated set-offs.
The wall on the west side of the courtyard has a doorway with a chamfered granite
lintel.
Including granite rubble walls to the south enclosing a small garden in front of the
house; the south wall is a lower retaining wall ramped up at either end to taller
side walls which are attached to the house; the west side wall has a gateway with a
chamfered granite lintel and there is a granite mounting block on the west gable end
of the main range.
Interior: The central-cross passage partitions have been removed to form a long
central room which has fielded dado panelling and a chimney-piece at the left end
with a dentilled cornice, urns and festoons and flanking alcoves with shaped shelves.
Similarly shelved alcoves at the right end flanking a C20 chimney-piece. Smaller but
full depth east room has closely spaced chamfered ceiling beams. The west room
similar in plan has been stripped of plaster exposing stone walls and ceiling
joists; the fireplace in the west end wall has a square-section granite lintel and to
its right the former stair turret (or smoking chamber) doorway is blocked. The
stairhall behind the central room has some possibly reused early C17 panelling with a
fluted frieze and moulded cornice. The C18 open-well staircase has an open string,
turned balusters, square newels with moulded caps and moulded handrails.
The rear service-kitchen range has a large open fireplace in the east gable end with
granite jambs and a large unchamfered timber lintel and a floor laid with granite
setts.
The house has been very little altered since the C18 and most of the C18 joinery
remains intact including fielded 2-panel doors and moulded doorframes etc. and many
of the moulded cornices survive.
Roof: The roofs over the main range and the rear right hand wing are probably C18,
having straight elm principal rafters crossed at the apex, and with collars lapped,
pegged and nailed to the face of the principals. The roof over either end of the
main range have been replaced in C20 with soft wood trusses. The roof over the back
range has a nailed soft wood structure.
Treviades was held by the Treviades until about 1320 when it passed to the Trefusis
family who held it until 1920 and probably built the existing house in circa late
C16. The C18 remodelling was probably carried out for the Symons family who held the
farm on a lease at the end of the C18.
Source: Charles Henderson. A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall.
pages 182 to 187.

Listing NGR: SW7478928811

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533565

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