Bosoughan Cottage

Bosoughan Cottage is a house dating from around the early 18th century, with later 20th-century extensions. It is constructed of cob walls and has a gable-ended roof originally thatched, but now re-covered with corrugated asbestos sheets. The house features projecting gable-end stacks with short, rendered shafts.

The original plan comprised two rooms, with a straight central staircase rising from a front entrance lobby. The right-hand (south) room was the parlour, and the left-hand (north) room the kitchen, both with gable-end fireplaces. The kitchen fireplace has a stone jamb, a chamfered timber bressumer with straight-cut stops, and an oven with an iron door. A re-used stone is visible in the left jamb of the parlour fireplace. An outshut behind the kitchen was likely an unheated service room and may have been an original feature. Later 20th-century additions include a small extension in the rear angle, a conservatory, and an outshut at the north end.

The west front presents a nearly symmetrical appearance with three windows. 20th-century replacement windows are set in original openings, and a central doorway has a plank door. The rear (east) elevation features an outshut on the right side with a small flat-roofed extension in the centre.

The interior is largely intact and complete, retaining much of the original joinery and carpentry. This includes plank partitions on both the ground and first floors, and closely-spaced ovolo-moulded ceiling beams in both ground-floor rooms. The roof structure has pegged rafter trusses, although the purlins have been replaced.

Bosoughan Cottage is a largely intact early 18th-century cob-built house, notable for its unusually complete interior features.