Description

GWENNAP BURNCOOSE
SW 73 NW
6/108 Burncoose Cottage
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GV II
Small farmhouse. Early C19. Roughly coursed granite rubble with dressed granite
quoins, jambstones, sills and lintels. Grouted scantle slate double span roof with
brick chimneys over gable ends of front part and tall axial stack with 3 flues over
middle of narrower rear roof.
Plan of 2 unequal front rooms with left-hand (west) room slightly larger, passage
between and 2 narrower service rooms to rear in parallel range.
2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 2-window south front with openings grouped slightly to
right. Doorway, midway between window openings, within shallow open porch with stone
side walls and slate roof with boarded gable, 4-pane horned sashes to ground floor
and original 18-pane hornless sashes to first floor.
Interior not inspected.
A simple house surviving little altered since the C19.

Listing NGR: SW7419739255

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614296

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)