Pair Of Attached Houses About 15 Metres West Of Honey Cote

A pair of attached houses, likely dating to the late 17th or early 18th century, with additions from the early 19th century and later alterations. The houses are constructed of rendered stone rubble, with the upper level of one house in rendered cob. The house to the south has a thatched roof with gable ends. The house to the north has a thatched roof now covered with corrugated iron, also with gable ends. Both houses have gable end stacks; the stack on the left side of the northern house has a large rubble shaft with slate weathering and a brick chimney top, while the stack on the right side has a shaped top. The linking block between the houses has a slurried scantle slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends.

The houses are arranged in an L-shape, with one house to the south and one to the north, linked by a single-room plan addition built in the early 19th century. The southern house has a two-room plan with a central entrance to each room, heated by gable end stacks. The room to the right was likely the parlour, and the room to the left the kitchen. A single-room plan addition to the rear left connects to the main house and is unheated. The northern house has its front on the left side of the L-shaped range and is also of late 17th-century origin, with a two-room plan and a central entrance, again heated by gable end stacks.

The southern house has a nearly symmetrical two-window front. The ground floor features a central plank door with a wooden lintel, and C19 two-light casements with wooden lintels to the left and right. The first floor has C19 two-light casements with six panes each, also with wooden lintels to the left and right, with the right end blind. Exposed cob is visible at the left end, alongside an oven at the base of the stack. The linking addition to the rear of the southern house is two storeys tall, with a C19 three-light casement with six and eight panes and a plank door on the ground floor, and a two-light four-pane casement on the first floor.

The northern house has a nearly symmetrical three-window front with a C19 four-panelled door with a glazed top panel and C19 sixteen-pane sashes to the left and right on the ground floor. The first floor has two sixteen-pane sashes to the left and one sixteen-pane sash to the right. A blocked doorway is located to the left of the front door; this suggests a possible conversion of earlier attached one-room plan houses into a single dwelling in the 19th century. The left end features a large external stack. The interior of the houses has not been inspected.