Bolitho Cottage

SW 63 SW CROWAN

2/96 Bolitho Cottage -

GV II

Small house. C17, remodelled in the C18 and C19. Painted rubble with some dressed granite. Scantle slate roof sweeping lower over most of rear. Stone rubble chimney over left hand gable end and brick chimney over right hand gable end. Plan: large room left and shallower room on the right, both with large gable end fireplaces. Stair projection towards left and shallow service room right are under an integral shallow outshut. Present entrance leads into the left hand room and a fairly thick stone wall surrounds the right hand room dividing it from the left hand room: and the rear service room. The right hand gable end is a probably C18 rebuild and part of the front wall is a C19 rebuild. 2 storeys. Roughly symmetrical 3 window roughly south front. The openings are all grouped towards the left and the doorway and window over are left of middle. Small square window openings with 4-pane horned sashes except for C20 window in deepened opening at ground floor right. C20 divided ledged door. Over the ground floor left hand opening is a C17 straight chamfered window head of a 2-light granite mullioned window. Interior has C19 floors, stair and roof structure. Set in open farmland adjoining unbroken moorland of Crowan Beacon.

Listing NGR: SW6699735005