April Cottage And Park View

Two cottages, formerly possibly three, dating probably from the 18th century. The cottages are constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob or rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and a continuous thatched roof, covered with corrugated iron to the rear and over the hip. They face northeast; April Cottage is on the southeast side, and Park View on the northwest side.

April Cottage has a three-room plan with an end stack serving the left room and a rear lateral stack serving the right room. The right room may originally have been a separate single-room cottage. Park View has a two-room plan with a rear corner stack to the right room and a 20th-century flat-roofed single-story extension to the front of the left room. Both cottages are two storeys high.

April Cottage has an irregular three-window front featuring late 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. It has a 19th-century six-fielded panel door with a 20th-century gabled and thatched porch incorporating late 19th-century cast iron decorative brackets. Park View has an irregular two-window front with 20th-century casements and glazing bars. The roof is gable-ended on the left (April Cottage) and hipped on the right (Park View).

Interiors reveal plain carpentry details where exposed. A rubble fireplace in the right room of April Cottage includes a Bideford clom oven with a door. The roof is inaccessible, but the feet of the principals in April Cottage suggest 18th-century A-frame trusses.