Part Reeves And Reeves Cottage

Part Reeves and Reeves Cottage consists of two cottages that were originally a single house, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. They were divided and modernised in the 19th century. The structure is made of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob and rubble stacks that are topped with 20th-century brick, and the roofs are mostly thatch, with part slate.

The cottages face north, with Reeves at the right (west) end being a T-shaped building. It has one room with a rear corner stack in the main block and two rooms at the right end under a wide roof aligned with the main block. The rear room previously had a kitchen stack. Part Reeves at the left (east) end is a two-room cottage, featuring a larger right room served by an axial stack in the party wall and a left room that was created from a former carriageway. There is an early 20th-century service extension at the rear. The building stands two storeys tall with irregular fenestration. The main block has five ground floor and three first floor windows, mainly late 19th and 20th-century casements, with the older ones featuring glazing bars. The two ground floor windows on the right (Reeves) are horned large-pane sashes with glazing bars, with the right window blocking the site of a former door. An early 20th-century four-panel door and window at the left end (Part Reeves) occupy the front arch of the former carriageway, while a 20th-century iron-framed casement to the right blocks another former doorway. The slate-roofed right end of Reeves projects into the street, featuring a 20th-century door on the side, a first floor 16-pane sash window, and a ground floor 12-pane former shop window with a timber architrave that includes simple pilasters with capitals.

Inside, both cottages primarily reflect 19th and 20th-century modernisations. All fireplaces have 20th-century grates, and the large kitchen fireplace has been removed. No beams are exposed. In Part Reeves, a cupboard next to the fireplace conceals a blocked doorway, indicating that the two cottages were once connected. The only remaining evidence of the late 17th to early 18th-century origins is another cupboard in Part Reeves, which has a panelled door hung on H-hinges with trefoil ends. The roof has not been inspected.