Stream Cottage

Stream Cottage is a cottage first mentioned in parish records in 1675, and its features support this date. The building has undergone interior rearrangements around 1960 and further modernization around 1981. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with an original cob stack topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and a secondary brick stack also topped with 20th-century brick. The roof is thatched, with slate on the outshots.

The cottage has a two-room plan and faces south. The left (western) room features the original end stack, while the right room has a secondary end stack, likely from the 20th century, and was subdivided around 1960 to create an entrance hall and staircase. During this time, part of the rear outshots was converted into a kitchen, while the remainder now belongs to the adjoining Sunnybank Cottage at the rear left corner.

The main house is two storeys tall with an irregular front, featuring two ground floor and four first floor windows. All windows are 19th-century casements with glazing bars and old glass, except for a 20th-century French window located on the ground floor right, behind a contemporary conservatory with a corrugated plastic roof. The first floor windows have thatch eyebrows above them. The roof is gable-ended on the left and half-hipped on the right, with the main door being a 20th-century addition now located in the right end wall.

Inside, the basic structure remains original. Both rooms have soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeams. The fireplace in the main (left) room is made of brick, with a soffit-chamfered lintel that also features scroll stops. The four-bay roof is supported by a series of A-frame trusses. Although the roof space is inaccessible, the large scantling of the exposed lower parts of the trusses and their well-squared corners suggest they are original.