Honeysuckle Cottage

Honeysuckle Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the 18th or early 19th century, that was modernised around 1970 when two original cottages were joined together. It is constructed of plastered cob, possibly without foundations, with chimney stacks built of cob or stone rubble and chimneyshafts of 20th-century concrete blocks, and has a thatched roof. Originally facing south and backing onto the road, the plan was of two rooms, with end stacks. The cottage is the result of uniting two small, mirror-image one-room cottages. Originally, a narrow space at the rear of each cottage was partitioned off for service use. It is two storeys high with secondary outshots at each end.

The exterior was originally symmetrical with two windows, but now has a third ground floor window, positioned slightly left of centre, which obscures a former cottage doorway. The ground floor windows are 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The first floor windows lack glazing bars but have oak frames, which are likely original, similar to those at the rear. The current front doorway, located right of centre (the original doorway of the right-hand cottage), has a 20th-century door behind a contemporary porch. The roof is hipped at both ends, and on the left side extends over the outshot.

Inside, the carpentry is plain. There are no main ceiling beams. Both fireplaces are large and built of stone rubble with roughly-chamfered oak lintels, and each has a blocked oven doorway at the rear. The roof structure consists of two bays with a central A-frame truss, with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars. The original common rafters are short sections of wavy branches, one set above the purlin and another below, each individually pegged. Honeysuckle Cottage is a remarkably well-preserved pair of small cottages.