Trewornan

Heritage listing

Details SW 97 SE ST MINVER HIGHLANDS 7/270 Trewornan including wall to rear - of courtyard GV II* Remains of large manor house and wall to rear of courtyard. Circa early C17 possibly with earlier origins. Partly demolished in circa C18 or C19. Stone rubble, partly slate hung on front elevation. Steeply pitched slate roof; hipped end on left, cross wing to right with hipped end on front and gable end to rear, hipped wing to right and rear wing to right with gable ends. Projecting stone rubble stacks with brick shafts on left hand hipped end, side lateral stack heating front room of cross wing and end stack heating right hand wing. A rear lateral stack with diagonally set rendered shafts heats the central room of the left hand range. Brick stack on rear gable end of cross wing and stone rubble and brick axial and end stacks to rear wing on right. A circa late C17 painting of the house illustrates the extensive south range prior to the demolition of the left hand (west) side. The south front was composed of a central two storey porch with two hipped or gabled wings to right and left and a further wing beyond on the right. The existing house may comprise the right hand side of the illustrated C17 south range. However, the house was considerably remodelled in the C19 and the original plan is uncertain. The existing plan of Trewornan comprises a south front with range on left (west) and cross wing on right. The left hand range is of two room, single depth plan, the right hand room heated by a rear lateral stack and the left hand room, possibly positioned to the rear of the earlier two storey porch, heated by an end stack. The front room of the cross wing on right is heated by a side lateral stack with a circa C17 stair to the north. The rear room of this wing is heated by a g

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.