Partridge Cottage

Partridge Cottage is a house that was formerly two cottages, likely built in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 20th-century brick. The roof is thatch, although the left end has been replaced with asbestos slate. The house has a three-room plan and faces south, having evolved over the years.

The right (eastern) end room is the oldest part, a 17th-century one-room plan cottage with a stack at the right end. In the 18th century, the central room was added, likely as a second cottage. This room is flush with the front and slightly projects to the rear, featuring a slightly higher roof ridge. It originally had a projecting end stack and a through passage connecting to the older room. In the 19th century, the left (western) room was added, which is narrower than the others but also flush with the front and served as a shop. Around the same time, the two cottages were united, and the rear of the passage was blocked by a staircase.

The house is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front, which includes some 19th-century windows, but most are 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The two first-floor windows have thatch gables above them. The front doorway, located to the right of centre, features a 19th-century six-panel door behind a 20th-century monopitch porch with a slate roof. There is a fifth window and a secondary door at the left end. The roof is gable-ended on the right and hipped on the left. A 19th-century woodshed with a corrugated iron monopitch roof extends into the road at the right end. The rear wall of the house is blind.

Inside, the interior largely reflects 19th-century refurbishment and 20th-century modernisation, but the original structure appears to be intact. In the 17th-century right room, there is no visible floor beam, but the large fireplace lintel is soffit-chamfered with exaggerated scroll stops. The central 18th-century room features a soffit-chamfered, unstopped, and partly waney crossbeam, along with a similar finish on the oak lintel of the rubble fireplace. The roof is not accessible, but the visible parts of the truss principals suggest that the original A-frame trusses are still present.