Loloma Cottage

Loloma Cottage is a house that may date back to the late 17th century, with remodels in the 18th century and an extension added in the 20th century. The building features painted shale rubble and cob walls, slate sills, and wooden lintels. It has a wheat reed thatched roof with brick chimneys at the original gable ends. The original layout included a parlour on the left and a hall on the right, with an integral outshut that housed a central stair and a shallow service room at the back of the hall. The parlour and hall have now been combined into one room. The cottage is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical two-window west front, with a slightly larger window in the hall on the right. The doorway is slightly left of center and features a 20th-century ledged door with an open thatched porch. The ground floor has 20th-century two-light casements, while the first floor includes an 8-pane horizontal sliding sash window on the left and a 12-pane two-light casement window on the right, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, with horizontal wooden glazing bars and vertically leaded panes. There is a splayed corner on the far right. Inside, the right-hand part (the hall) has a large fireplace with a chamfered and stopped oak beam and a bread oven behind the right-hand jamb. The ceiling features bowtell moulded beams, and there is a dog-leg stair with stick balusters. The original roof structure has not been inspected. The cottage shares a similar plan with Rosemullion and presents challenges in accurately dating its construction, but whether from the 17th or 18th century, it remains a fairly complete building. It also features a partly leaded window type that appears to be unique to the Lizard area.