Description

ST EVAL
SW 87 SE
3/205 Trevethan House (formerly included
as Trevethan)

GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa mid C19. Dressed slate. Rag slate hipped roof
with bitumen coating. 2 dressed slate axial stacks. Asbestos slate roof to rear
wing with gabled end.
Plan: Overall L-shaped plan. 3 principal rooms in the main range with the entrance
hall between the centre room and left end room. The entrance hall leads to the stair
well behind the consequently smaller central room. The kitchen is in an integral
wing behind the right hand room which extends as a row of service cottages. There is
a cellar under the left hand room of the main range where the ground level is lower.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. 1:2:1 window west front, symmetrical except that the
door is in the left of centre bay. Large pointed arch window openings with dressed
slate arches concrete cills and mid to late C19 pointed arch 8-pane sashes with
horns. The doorway to left of centre in a similar opening has vertically panelled
and studded doors and fanlight is a stopped and chamfered doorframe; C20 outer doors.
Pair of hipped dormers, each with a 16-pane sash, the sash to the left is a
replacement.
Similar dormer at each hipped end and similar windows to those at front in the end
walls, one on each floor.
The rear elevation has a pointed arch rear doorway and window above. The rear
kitchen wing to the left is much altered.
Interior: The interior is severely plain and without moulded plaster ceiling
cornices but the left hand room and small central room have mid C19 marble chimney-
pieces with console brackets. Most of the internal joinery is intact including
panelled doors and an oak open-well open-string staircase with thick stick balusters
and square newels. The hall floor is paved in slate.
The house is said to have been built for one Cobblestone Cross. (Information from
the owner).

Listing NGR: SW8583271820

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26577757

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)