Harmony Cot

Harmony Cot is a row of buildings that includes a house and two adjoining cottages, dating from the 18th century. The structure features painted rubble and cob walls, with wheat reed thatched roofs over the house and the right-hand cottage, while the left-hand cottage has a dry Delabole slate roof. There are brick chimneys at either end of the house and on the left gable end of the adjacent cottage.

The layout consists of a two-room-plan house flanked by one-room-plan cottages at each end. The house has its entrance located between the two rooms, while the cottages have their entrances on the right side.

The exterior is two storeys high with an overall five-window front. The original house, located to the left of the middle, has a two-window front with its doorway slightly off-center. It features a 19th-century six-panel door and 18th-century twelve-pane two-light casements with heavy glazing bars on the left side, along with a 19th-century copy on the ground floor right and a 20th-century copy above. The left cottage has a one-window front with a doorway on its right, featuring a late 20th-century plank door, a 20th-century six-pane horned sash on the left, and a 19th-century twelve-pane hornless sash with a high meeting rail halfway to the first floor. The right cottage has a two-window front with a doorway on its right, a late 20th-century plank split door, a circa early 19th-century sixteen-pane sash on the left, and 20th-century twelve-pane two-light casements above the ground floor openings. At the rear, there are small replacement windows with glazing bars, a small four-pane casement to the right of center with thick glazing bars, and a projection to the right that may have been a stair turret.

Harmony Cottage was the home of John Opie, a portrait and history painter born in St Agnes in 1761 and who died in London in 1807, as noted on an inscribed plaque at the property.