Burnoon

Burnoon is a pair of houses dating from the early 18th century. They feature grouted stone rubble walls with slate sills and wooden lintels, topped by a scantle slate roof. Each gable end has a chimney made of dressed granite and rubble, with the right-hand chimney rebuilt above ridge level using a brick shaft. The original plan was likely altered in the late 19th to early 20th century, but it probably consisted of two identical mirror-image houses, each with a large ground floor hall or kitchen and cross passages with stairs towards the middle. It is also possible that it was originally a three-room farmhouse, with a small unheated central room, a parlour on the left, and a hall or kitchen on the right. The building is two storeys high and has a slightly irregular four-window west front, featuring four-pane two-light casements. The ground floor windows on the left and right are slightly wider apart, and the doorways were originally located towards the middle, below the second and third first-floor window openings. The left-hand doorway has been blocked, and a window has been inserted to the right, while another doorway leads into a 20th-century single-storey lean-to. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is said to be structurally not much altered. This building is an unusually early example of a planned pair of houses in this part of Cornwall.