The Left Round House And Adjoining Wall To West Side

The Left Round House and adjoining wall to the west side is a cottage building and wall dating from around 1820 and later. It was constructed by Hugh Rowe, a builder from Lostwithiel, for the Reverend Jeremiah Trist. The building features painted render over slatestone and cob, topped with a conical wheat reed thatched roof and a lateral stack with a brick top stage on the east side. There is a dry slate roof on the wing, which has a brick stack over the gable end. The layout includes a circular room plan and a one-room wing, which is likely a later addition.

The structure stands two storeys high and has an arched entrance doorway on the north side, featuring an original Gothick tympanum and a 20th-century door beneath a thatched ogee-shaped hood. The wing to the north, adjacent to the left of the door, has an ordered arched doorway that has been converted into a window, with another window above on the west front. The road and west fronts display ground and first-floor window openings with arch-headed designs and ornamental stone-studded borders. The window opening on the northwest side is a 20th-century addition, and all windows are now 20th-century casements. At the apex of the roof, there is a turned wooden cross finial.

The interior has not been inspected, but there is a simple outbuilding with a scantle slate roof, along with window and door openings. The serpentine-shaped wall along the roadside adds to the character of the property. This round house is one of five in Veryan, all built by Hugh Rowe for the Reverend Jeremiah Trist, and it is said that each was constructed for one of his five daughters. The round design is traditionally thought to deter the activities of the Devil, but it is more likely that it was chosen for economic reasons.