Vine Cottage and attached garden walls

Vine Cottage and its attached garden walls date from around 1800, with alterations in the 20th century. The house is rendered and has a slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gable end stacks. It has a two-room plan with a central passage containing the stair, and a single-room service block to the left with a stair along the rear wall.

The front of the house has two storeys and a symmetrical facade of three windows, plus one window to the left. There are sixteen-pane sashes to the ground floor, without cords, and a twelve-pane sash to the first floor, with shutters and scalloped boxes. A central doorcase features a reeded architrave and cornice, a panelled soffit and cheeks, pilasters, and a 20th-century glazed door. A glazed addition has been built out to the left, incorporating a door and a sash window at ground floor and a small eight-pane sash with shutters at first floor. A single-storey privy is attached to the right side. A 20th-century sash window is located on the left side at first floor. The end bay to the rear is stepped forward slightly.

The front garden wall is constructed of slatestone rubble, approximately four metres high. A north/south range runs for about 20 metres and an east/west range for about 17 metres. A segmental-headed doorway with a brick head is on the west side, and a pointed arched, blocked doorway, formerly leading to an orchard, is also on that side. The south side has a former main entrance, featuring a gateway with chamfered coping and a two-panelled, segmental-headed door within a red and white brick surround with impost blocks.

The interior features six-panelled fielded doors leading from the central passage on the ground floor, along with a winder stair to the rear having stick balusters and a moulded handrail. A room to the left on the first floor has a moulded chimneypiece with a cornice, and the room to the right has a chimneypiece with an eaved architrave and six-panelled doors.

Local tradition suggests that the house was built as the retired butler’s house from Mount Edgcumbe House. The garden's layout is said to be inspired by the parterres in the French Garden at Mount Edgcumbe.