Mount Pleasant Oldlands

Mount Pleasant and Oldlands are two houses that were formerly three or four cottages, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with an extension to Oldlands added around 1980. The buildings are constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob or stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick. The roofs are thatched, except for the 20th-century extension, which has a slate roof.

The two adjoining cottages have a two-room plan and face south, backing onto the street. Mount Pleasant, on the right (east), features an axial stack in the party wall, while Oldlands, on the left (west), has a projecting rear lateral stack with an oven projection shared by the fireplaces in each room. Oldlands originated from two one-room plan cottages with mirrored layouts on either side of a timber-framed dividing crosswall. Additionally, Oldlands has a single-storey extension that projects forward from the left (west) end. The main block of both cottages is two storeys tall.

Mount Pleasant has a three-window front with 19th-century casements that include glazing bars, and the two right windows on the first floor have thatch gables above. There is a central 20th-century part-glazed door behind a contemporary glass-roofed conservatory. Oldlands features a first-floor two-window front with similar 19th-century casements and thatch gables. The window to the right of the extension has been enlarged to a French window. The roof is continuous, gable-ended to the right and half-hipped to the left. The rear of the buildings displays an irregular arrangement of 20th-century fixed pane and casement windows, with the two larger windows at the back of Oldlands likely blocking the original cottage doorways. The current door to Oldlands is located in the end wall and has a 20th-century porch with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Inside, Oldlands consists of two rooms, each featuring a soffit-chamfered and unstopped crossbeam. The fireplaces are adjacent, positioned on either side of the timber-framed crosswall, and share the same soffit-chamfered lintel. The original roof is supported by A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. Mount Pleasant was not accessible for internal inspection at the time of the survey, but it may be contemporary or slightly later than Oldlands.