6 AND 7

Two dwellings, formerly a single house, were originally built in the early 16th century and significantly altered in the 17th century. The houses are constructed of cob with a stone plinth, plastered walls, and a half-hipped shingle roof. Originally designed with a three-room, cross-passage plan, the lower end is located to the right of the passage, with a 19th-century extension added to the higher end. The house incorporates several brick stacks: one on the right-hand end of the internal wall, one just back from the roof ridge serving the parlour, one axial and backing onto the passage for the hall, and a front internal lateral stack warming the 19th-century extension.

The front elevation presents a six-window range. The upper floor has two- and three-light casement windows with bars, while the ground floor has similar windows and two front doors. The door to the right leads into the passage, set within a chamfered surround. The rear has a stair turret to the hall, a three-light casement window with chamfered mullions to the parlour, and a small window with a chamfered surround forward of the right-hand end stack.

Inside, the lower-end fireplace features a lintel extending across the entire width of the house. The rear wall of the lower end is faced with wattle and daub. A rear doorway has a chamfered surround and a planked door with spear hinges. A plank and muntin screen separates the lower end of the passage, with two arched doorways, one blocked, and chamfered muntins and bressumer. A rear doorway arch faces the front entrance. Another arched, chamfered doorway to the right of the stack leads from the passage into the hall, accessed through a short stretch of plank and muntin screen. The hall is divided from the parlour by a plank and muntin screen, stopping 15 inches above ground level. A chamfered jamb marks the doorway, which is now blocked. This screen is late medieval, and the beam above it supports the inserted parlour floor joists. The hall ceiling is supported by chamfered axial beams with step stops, representing the final stage of converting the structure to a fully two-story building. The lower end is jettied into the hall and forms the bressumer for the inserted hall fireplace stack. A winder stair to the rear of the hall retains its original treads, risers, and newel, with a chamfered door surround. A planked and studded door leads to the parlour chamber, showing evidence of a partition built when the parlour first floor was inserted. There is a floor level difference of 2 feet between the hall and parlour chambers. Two jointed crucks remain, with intact morticed and side-pegged apex carpentry to one; both are heavily smoke-blackened, with collars side pegged and morticed.