Hazel Cottages

A group of three cottages, originally five, likely dating to the late 18th or early 19th century, with renovations carried out around 1980. The cottages are constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble and brick stacks topped with 19th and 20th century brick; and thatched roofs, with slate to number 1. The main block faces north and is built along the street on a gentle hillslope, containing numbers 2 and 3. Number 2 has a three-room plan with a gable-end stack and an axial stack between the centre and right rooms. Number 3 has a two-room plan with an axial stack backing onto the adjoining cottage. These two cottages were created by rearranging three former cottages. The 1969 Ordnance Survey map shows four cottages at this location. Number 1 is a two-room plan cottage set at right angles to the rear and overlapping the west end of the main block, with an outer lateral stack, containing an access passage through the front end, allowing access from the road to the rear of the main block. The first-floor room of number 1 oversails this passage, adjoinng the main block. All three cottages are two storeys high with a circa 1980 lean-to extension at the right end of the main block. The front elevation has an irregular disposition of 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars – five to the ground floor and three to the first floor. There are three front doorways, each with stone steps down to the street, now blocked by 20th-century casements and all are disused. The entrance to number 3 is within the 1980s extension at the end, and the entrance to number 2 is located at the rear. The main roof is gable-ended. Number 1 contains a wide doorway leading to the access passage, featuring an old solid doorframe with an old plank door. The interior spaces are largely the result of 20th-century modernisation. Nos 1, 2, and 3 Hazel Cottages form part of a group of small, formerly thatched-roofed cottages.