Beehive Cottage

SW 93 NW VERYAN VERYAN

8/136 Beehive Cottage - 30-5-67 GV II

Round cottage. Circa 1820. Built by Hugh Rowe, a Lostwithiel builder, for the Reverend Jeremiah Trist. Painted slatestone and cob with grouted conical scantle slate roof with octagonal central chimney. Circular plan of one room. 2 storeys. North doorway, now window, has arch head formed by reused Early Decorated intersecting window tracery (possibly removed from north wall of church tower when clock face inserted.) Reused Medieval carved head over. Reused Medieval tracery intersections to left and right at higher level. Small pane of glass in left one lights stairs. Reused C15 cusped and ogee headed outer arched frames to ground floor east and north windows with central wooden mullions and cusped tracery. Further reused granite Medieval 2 light mullion to west. First floor window over this and to north-east C20 extension linked by covered passage to west. Interior has original chimney breast and ceiling beams. Replacement stair in original position. One of 5 round houses in Veryan all by Hugh Rowe for the Reverend Jeremiah Trist, reputed to be one for each of his 5 daughters. Round plan said to be to deter the activities of the Devil but more likely reason is economy. The others are thatched. Only this one has slate roof and reused Medieval material. Stones are said by occupier to have come from a building near Ladock.

Listing NGR: SW9154639604