Beech Cottage

Beech Cottage is a house, possibly originally two cottages, dating from the late 17th century or 18th century and renovated around 1970. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and features a thatch roof. The house faces south and has a three-room-and-through-passage plan. The left (west) room likely served as the kitchen originally and has a gable-end stack. Next to it is the passage, followed by the parlour, which has an axial stack backing onto a small unheated room at the right end that is now used as a kitchen; this end room may be an addition. There is a one-room plan rear block at each end. The house is two storeys high with a secondary rear outshot between the rear wings.

The exterior has an irregular six-window front featuring 20th-century casements. The first-floor windows include a rectangular pane with a leaded glass effect, while the ground-floor windows have glazing bars and include two curving bay windows. The front doorway to the passage is located left of centre and features a late 19th-century part-glazed panelled door behind a contemporary thatch-roofed porch with a cusped arch and trellis sides. The main roof is gable-ended to the left and hipped to the right. Although the interior was not available for inspection during the survey, it is reported to contain early carpentry detail.