The Cottage The Old Cottage

The Old Cottage and The Cottage are two cottages, originally a single house, dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It underwent alterations in the 17th century and was likely subdivided in the 18th century. A 20th-century extension was added to The Cottage. The construction is primarily plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brickwork. The roof is thatched, with slate covering the 20th-century additions.

The cottages occupy a much-altered 3-room-and-through-passage plan. The Cottage, on the right (east) end, occupies the former service room and includes 20th-century rebuilt outshots and a single-story extension set back from the front. It has a stack at its end. The Old Cottage incorporates the hall, passage, and inner room of the original house, although the layout has been significantly altered. The original passage adjoining The Cottage has been disused, and the hall-passage screen has been removed. A passage has been inserted at the upper end of the hall. The hall features a projecting front lateral stack, which extends as far as the former inner room. The end of the former inner room was apparently rebuilt in the 18th century and now contains one domestic room and a narrow store, the former served by an axial stack. The range originally extended further west.

The front elevation has an irregular 4-window arrangement, with 3 windows to The Old Cottage which are 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The window to The Cottage is a 20th-century casement with leaded glass, including a 20th-century bay window. A 20th-century doorway to The Old Cottage is sheltered by a contemporary monopitch, slate-roofed porch. The hall stack projection is carried to the left as far as the former inner room. The roof is gable-ended to the left and has a very steep, almost vertical, hip at the right end. A window and door are present in the 20th-century extension to The Cottage.

Inside The Cottage, the only late 16th or early 17th-century feature visible is a rubble fireplace with a soffit-chamfered, late step-stopped oak lintel. The plain joist ceiling is likely 20th century. The roof is inaccessible here. Within The Old Cottage, a late 16th or early 17th-century half beam is found in the original passage area, also soffit-chamfered with late step stops. A fireplace of approximately the same period is found in the hall, featuring a rubble construction and a mantle shelf with a coved soffit cut from the same timber; the soffit of the oak lintel has been cut away. A crossbeam here is 17th century, deeply soffit-chamfered with large scroll stops. A probably 18th-century A-frame truss with pegged lap-jointed collar is visible at the inner room end. The roof is inaccessible elsewhere.