Spinney Brook

Spinney Brook is a row of three one-room cottages, now combined into a single house. It likely dates from the 18th century. The walls are plastered cob construction on rubble footings, with rubble chimney stacks incorporating 19th-century brickwork, and a thatched roof. The house is two storeys high, facing north. It now contains three rooms on each floor. An axial chimney sits between the centre and left rooms, and a cob wall separates the centre and right rooms. A fireplace is located in the right-hand room. The right end of the building has a hipped roof, while the left half also has a hipped roof. The window and door arrangement is irregular; while all former cottages originally had a door and window on the ground floor, only the right and centre cottages had first-floor windows at the front. The right-hand cottage features an early 20th-century casement window blocking a former doorway, flanked by heart and diamond motifs sunk into the plasterwork. Adjacent to this is a two-light fixed pane window with a slender timber mullion and 18 small square leaded panes on each side. A similar three-light timber window is above a blocked door, also with ten panes per light. Other windows are 20th-century wooden casements. A 20th-century thatched porch supported by rustic posts now fronts the centre room. The interior displays plain carpentry details.