4, Halliggye

House, dating to approximately the early 18th century, though it may incorporate elements of an earlier building, with a rear wing added probably in the later 18th century and an outshut to the wing added around the late 18th century, when the rear wing was extended to include another house (No. 3). The structure is built of serpentine and elvan rubble, with cob to the first floor of the front, which is painted. It has slate sills and wooden lintels, and a thatched roof with brick chimneys on large outbuilt rubble stacks at each end.

The right-hand gable end and part of the front wall are likely older, possibly surviving from before 1700. The house appears to have a three-room plan, with the entrance to the left of centre and a small, unheated room to the right. The left-hand room is probably the original 18th-century kitchen, featuring a large, full-depth external stack. The right-hand stack likely served the original parlour. In the mid to late 18th century, a short wing was added at right angles to the rear of the centre, potentially altering the front’s plan (evidence of blocked and altered openings is visible, with the wall rebuilt in stone to the right of the doorway and rebuilt on the left). In the late 18th century, this wing was extended to incorporate a small house with an integral outshut (No. 3), and an outshut was added to the right-hand side of the wing.

The south front has three windows, with irregularly placed openings and signs of earlier alterations. The doorway is to the left of centre, featuring a panelled door later glazed with upper panels. A small window is located to the right of the doorway for the unheated room, and there’s a larger two-light casement above it and slightly to the right. A similar window is in the rebuilt stone walling to the left of the doorway. The first-floor window openings on the left and right have been heightened to accommodate 20th-century windows. A 20th-century window is now in the ground-floor opening to the right, and there appears to be a blocked opening to the left of it. The rear wing’s east wall may have a former window opening, with a joining detail visible, and is fitted with a two-light casement above a ground floor doorway. The interior was not accessible for inspection, which would have clarified dating and plan development.