Humberstones

Humberstones is a cottage dating from the 16th or early 17th century, constructed of rubble with pantile roofs. It abuts the left end of Mr Ollis’s stores. The cottage features a gabled projecting wing to the right, with a flat coping stone to the gable and a stone stack at the apex. A projecting chimney breast diminishes in stages up the front elevation of this wing. The left-hand section of the cottage has one window per floor, with 3- and 4-light casement windows featuring convex-moulded wooden mullions. The inward-facing elevation of the projecting wing has a modern door under a wooden lintel and a later 2-light casement to the ground floor. A modern 2-storey extension has been added to the left, including a gabled end bay. At the rear, a pair of windows is located in a slight break, and a door abuts to the right of this, set within a stopped-ovolo surround. Inside the main part of the cottage is a large fireplace. The projecting wing contains a fireplace with a restored, good-quality moulded three-centred arch, headed by a keystone and rosette. The building was used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by an independent non-conformist congregation (followers of Cennick), who subsequently constructed the Congregational Chapel in 1834.