Mount Pleasant Cottage

Mount Pleasant Cottage is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with a possible earlier core, and modernized around 1980 when an adjoining barn was incorporated into the living space. The walls are plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks and plastered shafts, and the roof is thatched. The house is built down a hillslope, originally facing south-south-east. The central and western portions of the building date to the 17th century, having a three-room lobby-entrance plan. The room at the western end was likely the kitchen, with a parlour or hall in the centre, served by a back-to-back fireplace and axial stack. An unheated room adjacent to the parlour likely served as a buttery or dairy. A barn adjoined the eastern end and has been brought into domestic use, with a stack inserted during the modernization. The exterior has a five-by-two-window front with 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. The five-window section represents the original 17th-century house, where the first-floor windows have thatch eyebrows. The lobby entrance doorway is located to the left of centre and is sheltered by a contemporary thatched porch, behind which is a 20th-century panelled door. The roof is hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left. Interior details, which were not inspected at the time of survey, are reported to include substantial original carpentry, including an oak plank-and-muntin screen between the hall/parlour and the dairy/buttery.