Middleways

Middleways is a house comprising three cottages, dating from the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure is built with plastered cob and rubble, featuring cob or rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick and a thatched roof. The house consists of three rooms facing south: an original 17th-century one-room cottage at the right (east) end, with two 19th-century one-room cottages at a lower level to the left (west), and a small 20th-century service block attached to the rear of the east end. There is an end stack on the left and a shared axial stack between the middle and right rooms. The front has an irregular arrangement of three windows, with late 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The lower 19th-century section has a symmetrical two-window arrangement with a central blocked doorway on the left. A thatch gable overhangs the first-floor window on the right end. A door is located in the end wall of the right room. The roof is gable-ended on the left and half-hipped on the right. The right room contains a 17th-century chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops. The centre room has a plain chamfered crossbeam and a timber-framed newel stair.