Burnside And Adjoining Cottage To South

Burnside and the adjoining cottage to the south is a house, likely originally a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century or earlier, with a later wing from possibly the 18th century that has been converted into a separate cottage. The building is constructed of whitewashed stone rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with gabled ends. It has a three-room layout with a through passage and includes a lateral stack at the rear of the hall and at the gable ends. The added cross wing at the higher end is now a separate cottage, creating a T-shaped plan, and there is an outshut at the rear. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range with 19th or 20th-century three-light casements that include glazing bars. A plank door leads into the passage, located to the right of centre, and is sheltered by an open-fronted porch with a stone slate roof.

Inside, there is a chamfered ceiling beam in the hall with step stops, and a blocked fireplace in the lateral rear stack. A solid wall separates the hall from the inner room, which has a chamfered beam against the higher end wall. There is also a solid wall between the hall and the through passage, with a chamfered beam featuring step stops over the partition wall between the passage and the lower room. One step down leads from the passage to the lower room, which has a massive, roughly-hewn main lateral beam at a low level. This rough beam contrasts with the lower gable end timber fireplace lintel, which is chamfered and has bar stops. The roof, dating from the late 17th century, features side-pegged lap-jointed cambered collars.