Burncoose Cottage

Burncoose Cottage is a small, early 19th-century farmhouse situated in Gwenna Burncoose. It is constructed of roughly coursed granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills, and lintels, and has a grouted scantle slate roof. The roof is double span, with brick chimneys positioned over the gable ends of the front section, and a tall axial stack with three flues over the middle of the narrower rear roof.

The house was originally planned with two unequal front rooms, the left-hand (west) room being slightly larger, a passage between them, and two narrower service rooms set back in a parallel range behind.

The south front is nearly symmetrical with two windows, the openings being grouped slightly to the right. A doorway, positioned midway between the window openings, is sheltered by a shallow open porch with stone side walls and a slate roof with a boarded gable. The ground floor has four-pane horned sash windows, while the first floor retains its original hornless eighteen-pane sashes. The interior of the cottage has not been inspected.

Burncoose Cottage represents a simple house that has survived with few alterations since the 19th century.