Lower Calamansack Cottage

Lower Calamansack Cottage is a small house dating to the early 19th century. It is constructed of slate rubble with granite dressings, with the front face of red Flemish bond brick and granite quoins, plinth, stringcourse, sills and keystones. The roof is slate with gabled ends, and there are red brick gable end stacks. The building was originally designed with a double depth plan, consisting of a kitchen to the left, a parlour to the right, a central entrance passage, a stairwell to the rear, and two shallow, unheated rooms at the back. In the later 19th century, a two-story outshut was added to the right side. The partition between the front parlour and the room behind has been removed.

The two-story, symmetrical front elevation features three windows, with rusticated granite quoins and a stringcourse at first floor window sill level. Window openings have flat brick arches with large keystones with shaped tops. The ground floor windows retain their original 16-pane sashes; the first floor windows have been replaced with 4-pane sashes, with a blind window painted in at the centre. The central doorway has a wooden doorcase with panelled pilasters, a small canopy-cornice on console brackets, an elliptical fanlight with spider's-web glazing bars, panelled reveals, and an original 6-panel door with the top four panels glazed and the bottom panels flush and reeded. A later 19th century two-story lean-to outshut is on the right side, featuring granite quoins around the doorway and window above. The rear elevation has two early 19th century 12-pane sashes on the first floor and two 20th century plastic windows on the ground floor, all with red brick segmental arches, along with a 20th century glazed door to the right of centre and a 20th century garage door in the lean-to to the left.

The front left-hand kitchen retains exposed ceiling joists, a slate floor, and a good 19th century iron range with a maker's name from Helston, along with a shelf above supported on console brackets. The parlour has a 20th century brick fireplace flanked by cupboards. The entrance passage features an elliptical arch with panelled pilasters and a small winder staircase with square newels and stick balusters, alongside a plank partition to the right of the stairwell. Original panelled doors are found throughout the ground and first floors.