Hanabusses

The property at Hanabusses is a house, originally three cottages, dating to the mid-to-late 17th century. It is constructed of colourwashed rendered cob with a thatched roof, half-hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. A projecting brick stack is located at the right end, and there are two lateral stacks at the rear, all with brick shafts.

The original layout consisted of three adjoining cottages. The outer cottages had one heated room and one service room, while the central cottage had a single room plan. Thick cross walls divide the cottages, and it is unclear whether the range was initially intended as a row of cottages or resulted from alterations to an earlier, larger building. A map from 1808 suggests the range was originally longer and comprised eight dwellings. Each dwelling had a direct entrance into its principal heated room. The right-hand cottage is heated by a right-end stack, containing a bread oven and a newel stair in the rear right corner, alongside a narrow, unheated service room to the left. The central cottage has a corner stack on the north wall with a stair in the opposite corner, while the left-hand cottage is heated by a corner stack with a narrow, unheated room at the left end, where the stairs are located against the rear wall.

The exterior has an asymmetrical six-window front with 2-light casements, most with 20th-century glazing patterns, except for a likely 19th-century 3-light casement to the right of the left-hand porch. Shallow porches, supported by timber posts, are situated to the left and centre, with a thatched porch to the right. The rear wall is largely blank, with two small windows containing 20th-century leaded panes.

Inside, the left-hand heated room contains a chamfered cross beam. The central heated room has a scroll-stopped axial beam from the 17th century. The right-hand room features a chamfered scroll-stopped cross beam supported on a post, a 17th-century fireplace with an ovolo-moulded lintel, volcanic stone jambs, and a bread oven. The window in this room has a scroll-stopped lintel, and a timber newel stair is located in the rear right corner. A safe with a timber door dated 1710 is found in a first-floor room on the right. The roof has a pegged collar rafter truss visible in the first floor room on the right, and construction is reportedly consistent throughout the range. The roof has not been fully inspected. It is one of a group of thatched buildings at Raddon.