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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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)