Pitt Court, Including Cob Wall Adjoining To North

This is a late 17th to early 18th century house, likely with an earlier core, that was originally a farmhouse and later divided into two cottages. It was modernised around 1970. The house is constructed of a cob facade on rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick and a corrugated asbestos roof that formerly held thatch. The original layout was based on a 3-room-and-through-passage plan facing south, with a service room at the east end. The rear of the passage is now blocked by a staircase, and the house has undergone substantial alterations in the late 17th to early 18th and 19th centuries, particularly at the left-hand (inner) end. There is a projecting end stack to the service end room and a projecting rear lateral stack to the hall. The house has two stories and an irregular four-window front, mostly with 20th-century casement windows containing glazing bars, but also including two 19th-century oak-framed, three-light casement windows with glazing bars on the ground floor to the right end. The two cottage doors are 20th-century, with a plank door to the former passage on the right and a glazed door to the left. There are two 20th-century buttresses at the left end. The roof is hipped at each end. Inside, exposed crosswall framing is visible on the ground floor; the slender dimensions of the roughly-squared timbers suggest a late 18th or 19th-century date. The fireplace in the service end room is blocked. The hall features a large soffit-chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops, likely dating to the late 17th to early 18th century, with a groove and mortises indicating a former partition below. The large hall fireplace is likely contemporary, built of squared rubble with a soffit-chamfered oak lintel with run-out stops; it incorporates a 19th-century brick oven with a cast-iron door, and a cream oven alcove to the left. The inner room end shows plain carpentry detail. The roof has a late 17th to early 18th century A-frame structure with pegged lap-jointed collars. A tall plastered cob wall, built on rubble footings and with slate coping, extends north-westwards alongside the road from the rear (east) end; it features several external buttresses and incorporates a Victorian post box.