Beehive Cottage

Beehive Cottage is a round cottage built around 1820 by Hugh Rowe, a builder from Lostwithiel, for the Reverend Jeremiah Trist. The cottage is constructed from painted slatestone and cob, topped with a grouted conical scantle slate roof and featuring an octagonal central chimney. It has a circular plan with one room and stands two storeys high.

The north doorway has been converted into a window and features an arch head made from reused Early Decorated intersecting window tracery, which may have been taken from the north wall of a church tower when a clock face was added. Above the doorway is a reused Medieval carved head, with reused Medieval tracery intersections on either side at a higher level. A small pane of glass in the left tracery lights the stairs. The ground floor east and north windows have reused 15th-century cusped and ogee-headed outer arched frames with central wooden mullions and cusped tracery. There is also a reused granite Medieval two-light mullion window on the west side.

On the first floor, there is a window above the west mullion and a north-east extension from the 20th century, which is linked by a covered passage to the west. Inside, the cottage retains its original chimney breast and ceiling beams, with a replacement stair in its original position. Beehive Cottage is one of five round houses in Veryan, all built by Hugh Rowe for Reverend Jeremiah Trist, reputedly one for each of his five daughters. The round design is said to have been intended to deter the Devil, though it is more likely a practical choice. While the other cottages are thatched, Beehive Cottage is unique for its slate roof and the use of reused Medieval materials. The stones are believed by the current occupant to have originated from a building near Ladock.