Number 1, Number 2 And Number 3 (Hillview Cottage), Pleases Row

Three adjoining cottages, probably originally a single house, dating from around the early 15th century. The building was remodelled in the 17th century and extended in the 20th century to the left and rear. The walls are of rendered and painted cob, with a hipped wheat-reed thatched roof. Two brick axial chimneys are present, one with a brick shaft over an external breast at the end, and another over an external lateral breast to the front, also featuring a projecting oven. The layout now comprises six rooms plus extensions for bathrooms in the rear, likely evolving from an original three-room-through-passage plan.

The south-west front is irregular with six windows. Most windows are 20th century replacements, except for three 12-pane, two-light casements on the first floor to the right. The original entrance was likely located to the left of the lateral stack, now replaced with a window. Current entrances are via 20th-century doors: one on the far left, one to the right of the lateral breast, and another beneath the fifth first-floor window, sheltered by a 20th-century gabled porch. Old rafter ends project beyond the cob eaves.

The interior of the middle cottage (No.2) retains evidence of the original hall, including a splayed fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel with run-out stops and an oven in the fireback to the right. A roughly chamfered oak axial beam is also present. Stops are likely located beyond later partitions. The roof structure is old but inaccessible.

In the north-west (left) end cottage (No.3), a chamfered axial ceiling beam with scroll stops is preserved alongside a fireplace in the end wall, featuring stone rubble jambs and a chamfered lintel with scroll stops. A partition has been plastered over. Within an upper room, a roof truss is visible; the roof space is inaccessible.

The right-hand end (No.1) shows evidence of two smoke-blackened cruck blades at the rear, with massive, square-set purlins resting on top of them. Surviving morticed chamfered arch braces were originally tenoned for collars, which are now missing. A roof over the higher, right-hand end was replaced around the late 17th or early 18th century, featuring crossed principals side-pegged to lap-jointed collars. The hall has a chamfered beam with step stops and an inserted fireplace with a timber lintel; the inner room has a chamfered beam with double scroll stops.