Bankside Shepherds Purse Shepherds Purse And Bankside Including Wool Store And Stables Adjoining South

A pair of cottages with an attached wool store and stables, dating to around 1846, and built on the site of an earlier structure. The building is constructed of colourwashed cob on a stone rubble base, with the right-hand (north) end featuring slate rubble, dressed granite quoins and red brick arches. It has slate roofs, with a half-hipped north end and a hipped roof over the south range.

The building comprises a long range with a pair of cottages at the left (north) end, an integral wool store to the right, and a stable range at right angles to the right-hand (south) end. The stables may be a later addition related to a fire reported in 1840.

The cottages, named Shepherds Purse and Bankside, present a symmetrical three-window facade to the left. The upper floor has a central two-light casement window, with original sixteen-pane sashes to the left and right. Later 19th or 20th century sash windows with vertical glazing bars are on the ground floor, and a pair of 20th-century glazed doors are at the centre, the left-hand door having a canopy supported by wrought iron brackets.

The wool store to the right has a doorway on the left, a central window, and a wide cart entrance on the right. Above is a three-bay opening with adjustable wooden louvres. The two-storey stable block has a hipped roof and brick cambered arch openings on the ground floor, with a small loft doorway centrally positioned above. A flight of stone steps leads to a loft doorway at the right-hand (east) end of the south range.

The interior was not inspected. The building is believed to have been constructed by a Mr Allanson from Yorkshire and is depicted on the 1846 tithe map. A newspaper report in The West Briton on September 25, 1846, describes a fire that destroyed the premises and a large quantity of wool, along with tools and other property. The presence of wool stores with louvred lofts is considered unusual in Cornwall.