Westaways And House Attached To Right

This is a pair of attached houses located in Calstock, built in the early 17th century, with additions from the late 17th to early 18th century and later alterations in the 19th century and more recently. The houses are constructed of painted slatestone rubble, with concrete tiled gable ends. They have brick shafts in the gable end stacks and an axial stack with a weathered rubble shaft.

Westways is the house on the left and appears to have an unusually wide passage. The plan consists of a small room to the left and a larger room to the right, each formerly heated by a stack at the gable end. The house to the right was likely added in the late 17th to early 18th century and has a single-room plan with an entrance to a passage and a room to the right. A single-story outshut extends from the right side.

Westways is a two-story building with an asymmetrical two-window front. The ground floor has an 18th-century plank door with a glazed panel, a 19th-century 20-pane sash window to the right with external shutters, and a 19th-century 2-light 8-pane casement above the door; a 2-light 20th-century casement is located at first floor to the right. The wall steps back towards the left with a 20th-century 2-light casement with external shutters at ground floor. The wall steps back to the right, connecting to the attached house, which features a 20th-century glazed door and two 20th-century 2-light casements on the ground floor and two 2-light 8-pane casements at first floor. The right end is blank. The rear outshut has a slurried slate roof, extending along the rear of the attached house, behind the passage, and behind the large room of Westways. It has five 20th-century windows. A 20th-century window is located at the rear of the smaller room of Westways.

Inside Westways, the passage has four stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a stud partition to the small room to the left, and a 19th-century wooden partition to the larger room to the right. The small room has a single chamfered beam and a timber lintel remains from the early fireplace, with a 20th-century fireplace inserted. There is also a coffin hatch in the ceiling. The larger room has a fireplace with a timber lintel, chamfered with scroll stops, and later, non-chamfered beams. A splayed reveal is present on the front window. At first floor, the feet of the principal rafters are boxed in; the roof space is not accessible.