Little Hawkridge

Little Hawkridge is a house that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century, with 18th century and circa 1960 extensions. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, featuring a cob stack topped with 20th century brick and a thatched roof. The house was originally designed with a two-room layout facing southeast, where the right-hand room has a projecting rear stair turret and a formerly projecting end stack. An additional third room was added to the right end in the 18th century. In the circa 1960 renovations, the original stair was replaced with a new straight flight from the front door, and a service block was constructed at right angles to the rear of the left room.

The house has two storeys and an irregular front with four windows on the ground floor and three on the first floor, featuring a mix of 19th century and circa 1960 replacement casements with glazing bars. The main door, located to the left of centre, is a 19th century studded plank door. There is a secondary doorway to the right end extension that includes a circa 1960 glazed window. The roof is gable-ended to the left and hipped to the right, with the rear extension having a half-hipped roof.

Inside, the oak lintel above the main front door is chamfered with scroll steps. The left room does not have exposed carpentry, while the right room, now central, has a circa 1960 replacement axial beam. The large fireplace in this room is original, made of local stone rubble, with a soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel, and includes a late 19th century oven with a cast iron door. The rear wall features the original doorway to the disused stair turret, which has a chamfered frame with scroll stops and a studded plank door with plain strap hinges. The right end room contains a roughly-finished axial beam. The roof of the original house consists of three bays supported by side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, with pegged dovetail lap-jointed collars and threaded purlins and ridge.