Butcher's Shop Adjoining Myrtle Cottage

This building is a butcher's shop adjoining Myrtle Cottage, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of slate stone rubble with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends and brick end stacks. The layout consists of a double depth plan. The left side contains the house, which has a through passage on the right, a large room heated by an end stack on the front left, stairs to the rear at the side of the passage, and a small service room at the rear left. The right side is occupied by the 19th-century shop, which has a lean-to outshot at the back. Behind the left side, there is a former slaughterhouse that has been converted into domestic accommodation.

The building is two storeys high with a regular three-window front. The ground floor features a late 19th-century bay window on the left, a part-glazed door near the center from the 19th century, and a 19th-century shop window on the right. The first floor has three 19th-century two-light sliding sash windows. The rear elevation includes 19th-century two-light horizontally sliding sashes. This building is part of a group on the east side of Fore Street in Boscastle.