Perhams Green Cottage

Perhams Green Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that was raised in height in the early to mid-19th century and renovated in the early 20th century. It is constructed of plastered cob and local stone rubble, with cob and stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room central staircase plan and faces northwest. Each room has a gable-end stack; the left room was the former kitchen and the right room was the former parlour. The central staircase was added in the early 20th century, blocking an original through-passage, and it is believed that the original staircase rose alongside the parlour fireplace. Prior to the early 20th-century renovation, the building functioned as two one-room plan cottages.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a 20th-century service outshot at the rear, along with a lean-to woodstore on the left end. The exterior features a symmetrical two-window front with early 20th-century horned four-paned sashes arranged around a central doorway. This doorway contains an early 20th-century four-panel door behind a contemporary gabled porch with open wavy bargeboards and trellis sides. The bead-moulded doorframes of both the front and rear doorways may be original. The gable-ended roof is notably tall and steeply pitched.

Inside, late 17th-century features are primarily found on the ground floor. The former kitchen has a plain-chamfered crossbeam and a large plastered fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel, which includes a blocked oven doorway. The parlour features a chamfered crossbeam with run-out double nick stops at the passage end, and its fireplace has been partly rebuilt with plastered stone rubble, retaining a chamfered oak lintel that has a peg hole from a timber jamb on the left side. The roof is supported by early to mid-19th-century tie beam trusses with spiked lap-jointed collars and X-apexes.