Church Terrace

Church Terrace is an 18th-century house, originally a row of three cottages. A 19th-century extension was substantially modernised when the cottages were combined around 1980, and a collapsed cottage at the right end has been replaced by a garage built around 1986. The walls are of plastered local stone rubble, with stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a thatch roof, except for the 1986 garage which has a slate roof.

The building is two rooms deep, set into a hillslope, with the right-hand (west) room containing an axial stack backing onto the left room, which has a gable-end stack. These originally formed two single-room plan cottages. A single-storey extension was added on the left (east) end in the 19th century and has been incorporated into the living space as a kitchen. The main house is two storeys high and has a three-window front with 20th-century casement windows, some with glazing bars, and a roughly central doorway with a part-glazed 20th-century door behind a contemporary gabled porch. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside, there is plain carpentry detail and stone rubble fireplaces with simple oak lintels. Behind the axial chimney stack at ground floor level is a 17th-century oak fireplace lintel with a chamfered Tudor arch soffit, which may have been introduced but could indicate an earlier 17th-century farmhouse that was later converted into cottages. The roof space was not inspected. The house is one of several attractive, traditional thatched-roofed properties near the Church of St Nicholas.