Sunnyhill

Sunnyhill is a late 17th and early 18th century timber-framed cottage, with a probable 19th-century extension to the north and a 20th-century extension to the south. It stands on a stone plinth. The main external rendered stack is large and stepped, topped with a brick chimney. Most infill panels are traditional rendered wattle and daub, although some have been replaced with limewashed brick, particularly on the rear elevation. The cottage has a thatched roof with eyebrow dormers to the front. The interior plan is baffle entry, with a boarded door opening to the side of a fireplace. Casement windows with later glazing are set within box framing, and iron-framed small-pane casements are in the dormers. The massive, stepped stack is a characteristic feature of the area.

The downhill room contains a cast-iron range in the fireplace, which aligns with the stack and is partly bricked in. It has a mantelpiece and a heavy chamfered cross beam with exposed joists, and a flag floor. The uphill room was formerly partitioned as a pantry or dairy and retains a limewashed finish, lath and plaster ceiling with hooks over the joists, and a floor of large clay tiles. It also has a heavy chamfered cross beam and a later board floor. A 20th-century fireplace corresponds to a later external flue on the front of the house.

A reputed former cider house, with a loft, is attached to the uphill gable end; it is constructed of painted brick and weatherboarding with a corrugated roof. A 20th-century single-storey extension of painted brick with a slate roof, containing a kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom, is attached to the downhill gable end and partly incorporates the stack.

Internal features include original stairs, a hallway created by a later boarded partition, and an unusual double-A frame doorway which may suggest a modification of an earlier arrangement. Black-painted, wide-spaced timber framing is partly visible, including tie beams and the lower sections of some principal rafters below the ceiling.