Wayside

Wayside is a cottage that was formerly a cottage and workshop, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with a cob or stone rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The building includes a former workshop and a one-room plan cottage to the right (west) facing north. The workshop is broader than the cottage and extends to the rear; it now serves as a front entrance hall and service room, with another room at the back. The cottage has a right end stack in the party wall and stands two storeys high.

The irregular frontage has a ground floor and two first floor windows, showcasing a variety of late 19th-century casements and fixed pane windows with glazing bars. There is a slight change in the frontage that marks the division between the former workshop and the cottage, which levels off around the first floor. A 19th-century plank door is roughly positioned in the middle of the workshop end, and there is a Victorian post box set into the wall at the left end. The wall plate is visible below the eaves, and the roof extends continuously from the adjoining Tudor Cottage on the left to Gremlin Cottage on the right.

Inside, the left end features a massive axial beam with minimal finishing, mostly waney, indicating that this section likely served a workshop or storage purpose. The right end has a plainly finished axial beam and a 17th-century fireplace, with rubble sides and a soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped cambered lintel, which includes a 19th-century brick-lined oven with a cast-iron door. The roof throughout is of 18th-century A-frame trusses with lap-jointed collar beams and X-apexes. It appears that Wayside was once connected to the adjoining Gremlin Cottage. Coleford is noted for being a remarkably unspoilt and picturesque hamlet.