Jasmine Cottage

Jasmine Cottage is a cottage dating back to the 17th century, with possible origins in the 16th century, and incorporating alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of colour-washed stone rubble, with stone rubble stacks. One stack incorporates a portion of the original Beerstone chimneyshaft, topped with 19th and 20th-century brick. The roof is thatched.

The cottage was originally built along the lane, facing north-east. It appears to have been created in the 18th or 19th centuries as part of the subdivision of a larger 17th or 16th-century house. It stands alongside Beehive, and together they likely formed an original 4-room-and-through-passage plan house. Jasmine Cottage currently occupies the former hall and inner room parlour. The hall stack backs onto the site of the former passage in Beehive.

The front of the cottage has an irregular two-window arrangement featuring 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A ground floor window on the right obscures a former doorway that led into the original inner room parlour. This doorway was inserted through part of a late 16th or early 17th-century Beerstone window, destroying two of its original three lights. One ovolo-moulded mullion, the headstone, and the hoodmould from the original window still survive. The current doorway, located to the left of this window, was inserted into the former hall, and features a 20th-century plank door with coverstrips in a traditional style. A 20th-century plaque is set high in the wall, inscribed with the date AD 1503. The thatched roof continues with those of the adjoining cottages.

The interior was not inspected during the survey, but 17th and possibly 16th-century carpentry details are suspected. A thorough internal survey is recommended before any alterations are carried out. Jasmine Cottage is part of an exceptional group of thatched buildings that form the hamlet of Street.