Greenaway Cottages

Greenaway Cottages are two adjoining cottages, originally a single house. The core of the building dates to the 17th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries, and restoration work completed in 2002. The walls are rendered cob and painted, with a hipped, wheat reed thatched roof, incorporating dormers to provide light to first-floor windows. There is an old rendered stone axial stack towards the right-hand side, and a brick stack over an external breast, with an oven projection, to the gable end on the left. A further rear lateral brick stack is located on the far left, adjoining the narrower bay.

The original plan was for two rooms, each heated by a gable-end stack. The room on the right-hand side has a direct entry from the front. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the building was remodelled into a pair of cottages, with extensions added to either end and a rear outshut.

The two-storey, south-east front has an irregular facade of two windows. Doorways with ledged doors are located to the right of the left bay, to the left of the right bay, and originally to the right of the middle bay, now with a 20th-century gabled porch. The left-hand cottage features an 18th-century three-light oak casement window to the left of the original doorway, a small 18th-century single-light window above the fireplace, and an 18th-century two-light casement above. All windows have leaded glazing. Ground-floor windows to the right of the doorway are late 19th century twelve-pane, two-light casements.

The right-hand (northeast) room has deeply chamfered cross-beams with large hollow step stops, fireplaces with timber lintels, an early 19th-century chimneypiece, and a range. The left room features a chamfered axial beam with indeterminate or run-out stops, exposed unchamfered joists, and a fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel without stops. The roof structure consists of two tiers of purlins set within a cob central wall and gable ends, without trusses, and common rafters have been replaced. A cob extension to the northeast and a rebuilt cob rear outshut are also present, constructed from cob blocks.