Chescombe Cottage

Chescombe Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from plastered cob and features a thatched roof, which is gabled at the right end and hipped over a lower-roofed extension at the left end. There is an axial stack to the left of the center and a lateral stack at the rear of the right end, both with rebuilt brick shafts.

The layout consists of a long four-room plan with an axial stack and back-to-back fireplaces between the two central rooms. The original house comprises a two-room section on the right (west), with a hall/kitchen on the left heated by a gable end stack (now axial) and a small unheated room on the right. In the 18th century, a one-room extension was added, with its stack backing onto the original range's stack. A further one-room extension was built at the left (east) end in the 19th century, and the entire range was converted into two two-room cottages, which were reunited into a single house in the 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four or five-window range. It features 20th-century two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars, and 19th and 20th-century plank doors on the left and right. At the rear, there are 20th-century two-light casements with glazing bars.

Inside, the centre right room has a chamfered cross-beam with ogee stops, a large fireplace with a roughly chamfered lintel, and a 19th-century winder staircase in the corner. The centre left room contains a boxed-in unchamfered cross-beam and a brick fireplace with a roughly chamfered lintel. The roof has largely been replaced in the 20th century, but two trusses at the right hand (west) end remain; the right truss has a collar morticed and tenoned into straight principals, while the left truss has a collar lapped and pegged to the face of the straight principals, both featuring trenched purlins.