Cowhouse Approximately 3 Metres East Of Gooseford Farmhouse

The cowhouse, located approximately 3 meters east of Gooseford Farmhouse, is a former farmhouse dated 1641. It features architectural elements consistent with this date, although it was partly rebuilt when converted from a farmhouse to a cowhouse around 1900. The structure is built from granite stone rubble with large, roughly-dressed quoins and sections of large coursed blocks of granite ashlar. It has a disused granite stack and a corrugated iron roof, which was formerly thatch.

The building has a three-room plan and is situated across the hillslope facing south. The internal layout has been significantly altered, and a more detailed examination of the fabric is needed to fully understand the original arrangement. The right end room contains an end stack, while it is believed that an axial stack served the other rooms, though no evidence of it remains. The cowhouse is two storeys tall.

The exterior features an irregular three-window front, with the windows currently blocked. The ground floor right window has been enlarged to serve as a doorway. A plaque inscribed "Anno Do 1641," flanked by labels inscribed "OL," has been reset high in the wall to the right of center. The roof is hipped at both ends, and the rear elevation has been similarly altered, with a central doorway that has been rebuilt. Above this doorway is the only original window remaining, an oak three-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions. A second door to the right features an oak 17th-century doorframe with an ovolo-moulded surround that has been reset to face inwards.

Inside, the cowhouse has plain chamfered crossbeams, and the fireplace is topped with a similarly-finished oak lintel. The roof consists of seven bays with A-frame trusses and pegged lap-jointed collars. E Lega-Weekes, who visited the house in 1896 before its conversion, described it as having "a gabled porch with a pointed entrance-arch of moulded granite, retaining a very heavy oak door, studded with monster nails, above which was a table dated 1641 and a mullioned window, on whose dripstone-corbels appeared the letters CL."