Reeves Cottage

Reeves Cottage is a house that likely dates from the mid 16th century, with later improvements from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, featuring a stone rubble stack with a 20th-century brick chimney shaft and a thatched roof. The original design was a three-room-and-through-passage plan facing east, with the inner room located at the left (south) end. The service end was likely demolished in the 19th century, resulting in the former passage now being at the right (north) end. A 20th-century stair occupies the rear passage. The house has two storeys and an irregular two-window front, which includes 20th-century casements. The two ground floor windows are located to the left of the hall stack, while on the first floor, there is one window to the left of the stack and another in the stack projection to the right of the chimney, both featuring slight thatch eyebrows above. At the right end, there is a front passage doorway with a 16th-century oak crank-headed doorframe and a 20th-century door. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside, the passage-hall partition includes a 16th-century oak plank-and-muntin screen, with chamfered muntins that have worn, possibly roll, stops. The hall has an inserted ceiling supported by an early 17th-century soffit-chamfered crossbeam, which has late step stops. The fireplace, likely contemporary, is made of stone rubble and has been reduced in width to the right. It features a plain chamfered oak lintel, a 19th-century brick-lined side oven to the left, and a small window in the back right corner. Another 16th-century oak plank-and-muntin screen is present at the upper end of the hall, exposed only on its reverse side where the muntins are not chamfered. The inner room, now used as a kitchen, is small and unheated. The first-floor crosswalls are plastered and may be framed with 16th or 17th-century oak. A side-pegged jointed cruck is visible over the hall, and although the roof is not accessible, the section above the hall is said to be smoke-blackened, indicating that the hall was originally open to the roof and heated by an open hearth. All three first-floor rooms have high ceilings beneath collar level, adorned with simple 17th-century moulded plaster cornices.