The Thatched Cottage

Two adjoining houses, possibly dating from the 17th century, were remodelled and extended in the 18th century. The walls are painted rubble with some cob, and have slate sills and timber or granite lintels. The roof is thatched with wheat-reed, with brick chimneys on the gable ends and along the party wall. A brick breast with a single-storey, gable-ended building with a scantle slate roof adjoins the right-hand gable end. A later 19th-century cottage is attached to the left-hand gable.

The original plan of the left-hand house may have been a three-room plan with a through or cross passage, featuring an inner room, hall, passage, and lower end room. It was converted into two small houses around the late 18th century, and possibly heightened (approximately two feet of cob were added under the eaves). It is now a single house, but the original right-hand doorway is blocked. The right-hand house, likely from the 18th century, has a parlour to the left and a kitchen to the right, with a passage between. A small outhouse, now connected to the house, is situated to the right.

The overall appearance is of a five-window range. The original house on the left has an irregular three-window front; the smaller middle window was likely inserted when the eaves were heightened around the late 18th century. This window, and the larger window below, have late 18th-century two-light casements with horizontal wooden glazing bars and some original leaded panes. A partly blocked original doorway is to the right of the middle window, with a 4-pane 2-light casement. The present doorway, with an early 20th-century gabled wooden porch, is located between the left-hand ground floor windows and the middle window. The far-right window opening is wider, featuring an early 20th-century two-light casement. Early 19th-century hornless sash windows with 16 panes are found on the ground floor left, and on the first floor left and right.

The right-hand house has a nearly symmetrical two-window front with a central doorway and first-floor windows spaced closely together. It features a 20th-century door within a 20th-century glazed porch. A possibly original 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window survives on the ground floor left; the other windows are later casements.

The interiors have not been inspected, but any surviving original features may help determine the building's chronology. The building is in an unspoiled picturesque location overlooking a village green and a cross. The leaded windows are a distinctive feature shared with a few other houses in the Lizard area.