Thorn

Thorn is a house dating from the 16th century, possibly with earlier origins, and underwent alterations around the late 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a clay Bridgwater tile roof with gabled ends and a brick gable-end stack. The building has a three-room plan, with the right-hand room at the higher end being a 19th-century addition. There is a through-passage between the lower left-hand room and the central room. The lower left room is heated by a large gable-end stack that includes an oven, and it has a winder staircase against the stack. The room on the higher right-hand side of the passage is unheated and divided by a timber partition. There are also attic rooms.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical east front that has widely spaced two-window openings featuring 20th-century replacement windows and a central doorway. The north gable end wall and the outshut at the rear have collapsed. The rear elevation includes a late 17th-century wooden three-light chamfered mullion window on the left, although one mullion is missing.

Inside, the lower left room has a deeply chamfered cross-beam and boarded-over joists, along with a large gable-end fireplace that has a timber bressumer and ovens. There is a plank-and-muntin screen on the low side of the cross-passage. The higher right-hand room retains the remains of an axial partition with a doorway that has a shouldered head. The roof structure has been replaced, but a post from a side-pegged jointed cruck truss remains at the rear of the lower end.