Hawker'S Cottage, Front Garden Wall, Mounting Block And Gateway

Hawker's Cottage is a house that dates from the early 18th century with alterations from the early 19th century. It features whitewashed plastered cob and a thatched wheat straw roof, which is gabled at the left end. There are brick chimneys at the left gable end and along the ridge. The house has a single depth, two-room plan with an entrance leading into a stair hall and a small rear projection. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front with a porch.

The front door is a reused 17th-century round-headed studded door with a high rail and cavetto moulded cover strips, adapted to fit another reused timber doorframe. The ground floor windows are 16-pane hornless sashes, while the first-floor windows on the left and right are similar sashes. The first-floor window above the porch is partly blocked to create a crucifix shape with barred panes, and there is a casement window below the centre of the cross. The gabled timber porch is made from salvaged boards and has a 20th-century timber battened roof. The sides of the porch are splayed out.

Inside, the ground floor on the left has a chamfered axial beam with straight cut stops, and the room on the right has two roughly-hewn cross beams and a 20th-century fireplace. Chamfered principals are visible in the upstairs rooms, and there are pieces of 17th-century panelling and remnants of a leaded window built into the stairwell. The 19th-century gabled roof covers a timber gate set between a rubble stone front garden wall topped with stones. To the right, there is a rough mounting block. The cross-shaped window was designed by the Reverend R.S. Hawker, a poet, antiquary, and vicar of Morwenstow, who is said to have spent his early married life in this house.