Hare Cottage

Hare Cottage is an inn that has been converted into a house, dating from around 1800 and extensively renovated in 1984. The building is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble and brick stacks, and features a thatched roof. It has a T-shaped layout, with the main block facing north-east and a crosswing on the right (north-west) that projects at both the front and back.

The main block includes a large hall or dining room with a lateral stack that projects to the rear at the right end, a parlour with round projections at the front and back and an axial stack in the centre, and stables with a hayloft above at the left end. The kitchen, located at the rear of the crosswing, has a large end stack, while the former cider-store in the centre and the current front garage were once a second parlour with a lateral stack. The front of the main block has an irregular arrangement of four late 19th-century windows with casements and glazing bars of various sizes. There is a door to the right of the parlour projection, and the crosswing features a three-light casement window on the first floor with a thatched gable above.

Inside, the cottage retains fittings from around 1800 and has an A-frame truss roof with nailed lap-jointed collars. A coin from 1799 was found in a brick and rubble nogged framed crosswall. The cottage was formerly connected to Fisher Cottage to the left (south-east) and was purpose-built as an inn on the former Crediton-Barnstaple road.