Lower Westcott Cottages

Lower Westcott Cottages comprises two dwellings, originally a single farmhouse, dating to the 16th century with later alterations. The structure is primarily cob with a stone plinth, plastered walls, and a gabled slate roof. It was originally planned as a three-room farmhouse with a through-passage, the higher end located to the right of the passage. The building features end stacks, with one external to the right and an external front lateral stack with paired set-offs, serving a hall. Brick shafts are present for all chimneys.

The front elevation has a four-window range. The upper floor features two- and three-light 19th-century casement windows. The front of the former parlour is largely obscured by a 19th-century brick and rubble extension with an attached 20th-century conservatory. The ground floor has 19th-century casement windows, and a rough, open timber porch is positioned at the former passage entrance. A rear stair turret incorporates a two-light window with an ovolo moulding. There are 19th and 20th-century extensions to the rear.

Internally, both passage screens remain; the screen on the left-hand side is chamfered and pegged, while the one on the right is unchamfered and grooved, with a later two-light internal window inserted. A roughly axial beam is present in the lower-end room. A blocked rear window is found in the hall, alongside a large fireplace with roughly worked stonework, and a large cross beam is partly visible between the hall and the parlour. The bases of two cruck timbers survive, appearing to have been sawn off below the collar level, and are reported as not being smoke-blackened. The interior of No.2 (the parlour) was not inspected.