Beehive

This is a cottage, dating back to the 17th century, with possible origins in the 16th century. Later alterations occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries. The walls are constructed of colour-washed stone rubble, possibly with some cob, and feature a stone rubble and cob stack topped with 19th and 20th century brick. The roof is thatched.

The cottage follows an L-shaped plan. The main block faces southwest and backs onto a lane, originally comprising three rooms. A narrow, unheated room on the northwest end was created from a former through-passage. The fireplaces of the two main rooms share a slightly projecting rear lateral stack. A two-story, single-room service extension projects forward on the southeast end. In the 18th or 19th century, this cottage was created as the end of a row, likely from the subdivision of a larger 17th (possibly 16th) century house. It continues northwestwards as Jasmine Cottage, and together they appear to have been part of an original four-room-and-through-passage house. "Beehive" occupies the former passage (adjoining Jasmine Cottage) and the two service end rooms.

The cottage is two stories high. The front has a near-symmetrical two-window arrangement around a central doorway containing a late 19th or early 20th century door. Most windows are 19th and 20th century casements with glazing bars. However, the ground floor right-hand window is a horizontal-sliding sash with thick glazing bars, likely dating to the 18th century. A ground floor window on the left side blocks the former passage front doorway, and an opposite rear window blocks the rear doorway. Similar windows are found in the rear and end walls, with the end wall also featuring a secondary doorway leading to a contemporary thatch-roofed porch with rustic posts. The roof is half-hipped and the thatch extends over the service extension, and continues over Jasmine Cottage.

Inside, both main rooms have deeply-chamfered and unstopped spine beams – a cross beam is present in the middle room and an axial beam in the end room. Stone rubble fireplaces with plain chamfered oak lintels are present in both rooms; the end room fireplace is larger and includes an oven. The roofspace is inaccessible, though a truss is exposed in the chamber above the middle room, featuring a straight principal to the rear and a side-pegged jointed cruck to the front.

Beehive is part of a notable group of thatched buildings forming the hamlet of Street.