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Trenethick
Barton
In the
civil parish of Wendron.
In the historic county of Cornwall (Modern
Authority of Cornwall, 1974 county of
Cornwall).
Gatehouse
or barbican and adjoining courtyard walls. C16. Built for the Hill
family. Granite elvan and killas rubble walls. Granite ashlar
gatehouse with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roof with
gable ends. Stepped copings to walls. Plan: Small rectangular-on-plan
gatehouse flanked by high walls, with wide gateway to the ground floor
and small guardroom above with its doorway into the right-hand gable
end approached by a steep flight of granite steps built against the
inside of the courtyard wall. 2 storey gatehouse. Ground floor has
wide 4-centred arched doorway with hoodmould. Old doors, probably C18
or early C19. Over the doorway the granite ashlar front is jettied out
on a dressed granite corbel table. There is a central complete 3-light
mullioned window with hoodmould. Under the window is the Hill coat of
arms. The walls are very high on either side of the gatehouse and ramp
down at either side. This gatehouse overlooked the former main highway
(now disused) and is one of the most interesting C16 domestic
buildings in Cornwall.
This site
has been described as a Fortified Manor House:
Fortified Manor House: A high status fortified residence not
capable of withstanding an army but able to resist an armed band. They
are generally moated and have a gatehouse with loops and
crenellations. They tend to be sited with much less consideration for
tactical and strategic defence and with domestic considerations, such
as ease of access, to the fore. The difference between a small castles
and a fortified manor house is a subjective one and may well be an
artificial division in that for contemporary medieval citizens it may
not have existed. David King did not use this term and preferred the
term Strong House, since not all fortified high status houses were
manorial, but use of his term Strong House has not been widely adopted
possible because it is widely used as a synonym for bastle. Such
buildings did not require a licence to crenellate and having a licence
to crenellate does not mean a building was certainly fortified.
However, I have recorded all buildings issued a licence to crenellate
under this group since they clearly were at least intended to be [re]constructed
in a fortified style
The
confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Major
remains.
This site is a Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 66349)
The
Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SW66802911
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THE GATEHOUSE 
