Godfreys Cottage

Godfreys Cottage is a house that was once part of a larger structure. It has a core dating back to the 16th century, with significant rebuilding in the early 17th century and modernization and enlargement around 1930. The building features plastered cob on rubble footings, with a probable brick extension, a rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof.

The main front block, facing north, includes a wide through passage that contains 20th-century stairs and a single room to the left (east) with a rear lateral stack. It is believed that this layout reflects the original 16th-century design of a three-room-and-through-passage plan house, with the hall and inner room now separated as the adjoining Tavy Cottage. There is a circa 1930 extension at a right angle to the rear of the passage on the right (west) end. The building is two storeys high with an irregular three-window front featuring large-pane casements with glazing bars from around 1930.

The entrance includes a circa 1930 door and porch with a glazed front and a hipped tile roof at the right end leading into the passage. The front is treated with stucco to resemble coursed rusticated masonry, featuring larger quoins at the corners and relieving arches over the windows. The roof has a gable end to the left and is continuous with Tavy Cottage on the right.

Inside, the interior largely reflects 20th-century modernizations but retains some 17th-century exposed features, including a large early 17th-century rubble fireplace with a high soffit-chamfered oak lintel. The flue has a blocked opening on the right side, which is thought to have been for a flue from an adjoining smoking chamber that has since been demolished. The roof of the main block features early 17th-century A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars and dovetail halvings.