Description

SW 72 NE CONSTANTINE

9/74 Treworval Farmhouse including
front garden area wall
26.8.87

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa early to mid C18, with C20 alterations. Granite rubble with
granite dressings; the first floor of the front is slate hung. Grouted scantle slate
roof with cambered granite coping to the gable ends with shaped kneelers. Gable end
stacks with red brick shafts and granite moulded caps. Axial stack to left of
centre has been truncated below the ridge of the roof.
Plan: Double depth plan. The 3 principal rooms at the front conform to the
traditional 3-room and cross passage arrangement with its lower end to the left and
inner room to the right both heated from gable end stacks and the hall heated from an
axial stack at its lower end backing onto the entrance passage. Along the back there
are shallow unheated rooms, and a stairwell behind the cross passage and the hall
stack. The back rooms are an integral part of the plan under a single span roof.
There is a small single storey porch behind the rear left hand room and there is also
a later privy at the back. In the C20 the partitions were removed from between the
hall inner room and the room behind to create one large room at this end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 4-window south front slate hung first floor
with a dressed granite band below continuing through the ground floor window lintels
which are grooved to imitate voussoirs; all the windows have granite cills. All the
front windows are C20 3-light casements except for the ground floor right which has
had its cill lowered for a C20 garden door. The original doorway to the left of
centre has a wide 6-panel door and a C20 glazed porch.
Rear elevation: All the windows at the back are C18. 2 first floor 3-light
casements with glazing bars and a large 3-light stair window with 14 pane per light.
On the ground floor to the right another smaller 3-light window with glazing bars and
an C18 single storey, stone rubble porch with granite monolithic quoins and a scantle
slate hipped roof. To the left the ground floor windows have been blocked and a
small privy added.
Interior: Much of the early-mid C18 joinery survives. The entrance passage has
plank screens with moulded muntins and wide fielded 2 panel doors. The entrance
passage leads to the stairwell at the back which has a fine open-well staircase with
a moulded string, turned balusters and moulded handrails ramped up to square newels.
The first floor has a complete set of C18 fielded 2-panel doors and chimney-pieces,
one with a fluted frieze. Unfortunately some of the dado rails have been removed.
On the ground floor the lower left hand room has exposed ceiling joists with ovolo
edge-moulding; the corners at the left end of the room are rounded and the fireplace
in the end wall is C20 with a granite lintel; an C18 fielded 2-panel door leads to
the back room now partitioned to form a corridor to the back doorway. Between the
front and back rooms at the left end of the house there is a horizontally boarded
partition.
The partition between the centre right hand and back room at the right end have been
removed forming one large room with a C20 fireplace at the right hand end.
Including the C18 front garden area wall. It is a low granite rubble wall with
cambered dressed granite coping ramped up at the right hand end to the taller side
wall. The granite gate-piers to the left of centre are later.
This early to mid C18 house has an interesting transitional plan, rather conservative
for a substantial farmhouse. It is largely intact except for the removal of
partitions at the right hand end; however, these partitions could easily be
reinstated.
Treworval Farmhouse was in the small manor of Treworval.
Source: Charles Henderson. A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall.
pages 165 to 167.

Listing NGR: SW7601829280

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613760

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