Jobs Farm Cottages

A house, likely dating from the early 17th century, which has been altered in the late 19th and 20th centuries and is now divided into two cottages. The building is constructed of rubblestone with quoins, and has been rendered with a surface texture imitating ashlar. It has a pantile roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic. Originally, it had two bays with a central baffle entry at the rear. A later 19th-century wing was added to the rear left, with 20th-century conservatories flanking it, which are not of particular architectural interest. A plinth runs around the base of the building. Brick steps leading to diagonally-boarded doors, each protected by a bracketed pantiled canopy, are positioned at each end of the front. Inside each door is a three-light wooden casement window on both the ground and first floors. A large brick chimney stack rises from the central ridge. At the rear, the original central doorway has been concealed by later additions. On the right return, a section of original rubblestone is exposed, with a three-light window of the original design on both the ground and first floors, and a 20th-century two-light window in the attic. The left return has two four-pane casement windows on the ground floor, a former three-light window (now with 20th-century glazing) on the first floor, and a two-light attic window.

Inside, the inglenook fireplace in the right-hand room features a timber bressummer with lambs tongue stops to chamfer, a former bread-oven, and side seats. Both bays on the ground and first floors have large timbers, including chamfered spine-beams with bar and lambs tongue stops, and other beams set into cross-walls. A 19th-century winder staircase rises against the chimney stack. The roof includes a central queen-post truss and queen-strut trusses at the gables, with large timbers supporting the rafters.