Cornhill

Cornhill is a cottage that originated as part of a farmhouse, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, and was modernized around 1970. It is constructed from plastered local stone rubble, possibly including some cob, with a stone rubble stack topped by 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan facing east and is built down a hillslope. At the right (north) end, there is a small unheated room, while the left room features a gable-end stack. This cottage represents the hall and unheated inner room from a 16th-century three-room-and-through-passage plan house, with the former passage and service end room at the left (south) end having been demolished. Although the interior was not inspected during the survey, it is believed that the house began as an open hall, likely heated by an open hearth fire, with the stack inserted and the rooms floored between the mid-16th and mid-17th centuries. The cottage has two storeys and a 20th-century conservatory on the left end. The front features two ground floor windows and one first floor window, all with thatch eyebrows above, and all are 20th-century casements without glazing bars. The roof is hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left. The main doorway, located in the left end behind the conservatory, contains a 20th-century door. The interior is said to include a significant amount of 16th and 17th-century carpentry detail, such as an oak plank-and-muntin screen between the two rooms and a roof structure of jointed cruck trusses.