Shotash

Shotash is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from approximately the mid to late 17th century, with later 20th-century renovations. The house is constructed of whitewashed rendered stone with a thatched roof. The roof has a plain ridge, gabled on the left end and half-hipped on the right. A projecting stack is situated at the left end, with a front lateral stack featuring a tall brick shaft.

The original layout comprised three rooms and a through passage, with the lower end to the left, heated by the left-end stack. The hall is heated by the front lateral stack, and the inner room to the right is unheated. A rear right projection may have originally contained a framed stair; a 20th-century stair has now been inserted against the rear wall of the right-end room. A rear left outshut with a tiled roof is likely a post-17th-century addition.

The house has an asymmetrical three-window front, with the eaves of the thatched roof slightly eyebrowed over the three first-floor windows and forming a catslide roof over a 20th-century porch to the passage, which is located to the left of centre. The porch has a pair of glazed doors. The first-floor windows are 2- and 3-light casements with square leaded panes, while the ground-floor windows are 20th-century metal-framed casements set within enlarged embrasures.

The interior retains the original room layout and much of the 17th-century carpentry. The hall features a moulded cross beam with bar step hollow stops, a replaced fireplace lintel, and a plank and muntin screen to the passage; the muntins are plain on the hall side but chamfered on the passage side. The inner room has a roughly chamfered axial beam. The lower end has a chamfered cross beam with pyramid stops, exposed joists, and a 20th-century grate that likely conceals earlier features. 18th-century plank and cover strip doors lead from the passage to the lower end and hall.

A side-pegged jointed cruck roof survives over the passage (the apex was not inspected); the right-hand truss is boxed in but appears to have straight principals. Evidence of rebuilt walls at the right end, along with the surviving roof structure, suggests that this end of the house may have been rebuilt. The remains of two chamfered stopped doorframes survive on the first floor. The house is a fairly intact 17th-century vernacular building, easily visible from the road.