Thatch Cottage

Thatch Cottage consists of two adjoining cottages, originally a single house, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, with remodelling in the 19th century. The construction is of slatestone rubble and cob walls, topped with a hipped wheat reed thatched roof, and featuring a brick chimney projecting from the left side wall and a stone chimney from the right. The building has an L-shaped plan: a single-room plan cottage on the left, with a single-room rear wing, and a double-depth, single-room plan cottage to the right. The two-storey south front has four windows. The cottage on the right slightly projects forward. Doorways are positioned under the first-floor windows, number two and three, and have 20th-century boarded doors. A cambered brick arch covers the door on the right. Two ground floor windows, one on the left and one on the right, are 20th-century additions with domed thatched roofs. The first floor windows are 16-pane, two-light casements. Internally, the cottage features open beam ceilings and retains the original pine roof structure, complete with lapped, pegged collars.