Sunnyside

Sunnyside is a house and adjoining cottage, now functioning as a house, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of rendered and painted cob on a rubble footing, featuring wooden lintels and slate sills. The house has a steep asbestos slate roof, while the cottage has a corrugated asbestos roof that was originally thatched and has a lower pitch. Each gable end has a brick chimney, including one over a large external breast with a quadrant oven projection at the east end.

The house is designed with a two-room cross passage plan and has an external stair projection at the rear of the east room. The cottage to the left has a single-cell plan with a lean-to at the west end. Both structures are two storeys high. The south front of the lean-to includes a window, while the cottage has a one-window facade to the left, and the house has a symmetrical three-window front to the right. The house features a central doorway within an early 19th-century wide porch, which has a central cambered arched doorway with a ledged door and flanking 16-pane fixed lights, along with similar windows on the porch side walls. The house's windows are original 16-pane hornless sashes made with much crown glass. The cottage has a doorway to the right with a four-panel top-glazed door, a four-pane horned sash to the left, and a 16-pane sash on the first floor situated between the window and the door. The property has cast iron ogee gutters, and the later lean-to on the left includes a doorway with a top-glazed door and a two-light casement above.

Inside the house, the interior is simple and largely unaltered, featuring side moulding on the ceiling beams, an original staircase with a cupboard underneath, and a turned newel to the landing balustrade. The first floor rooms have two-panel doors, and the pine muntin and plank partitions have been boxed in during the 20th century. The original pine roof structure includes lapped and pegged collars and pegged halved apices. The cottage has thin but deep bowtell moulded beams. Overall, Sunnyside is a very complete late 18th-century house that retains archaic features such as the external chimney breast and staircase, along with its original sashes and a curious but attractive porch.