Higher Town Cottage

Higher Town Cottage is a house that was originally two cottages, with one likely built in the early to mid-18th century and the other added in the 19th century. The two cottages were combined, modernized, and extended around 1952. The building features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble or cob stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and has a thatched roof.

The structure consists of a pair of adjoining one-room plan cottages with roofs at right angles to each other, facing east. There is a front gable stack on the former left (southern) cottage and a disused front lateral stack on the right-hand cottage. The house is two storeys high, with a one-window front on the left cottage, where the lower part has been blocked to close off a former door. The rest of the front is obscured by a circa 1952 extension. The south side has a one-window front with a thatched gablet above the first-floor window. The roof is half-hipped to the left (rear).

At the rear, there are two windows, one for each ground floor room, and the roof is hipped to the left. All windows are 20th-century two-light casements, most of which have glazing bars. Inside, the left (southern) cottage features plain carpentry details, including a chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops. The roof has not been inspected. A single-storey extension with a pantile roof, built around 1952, is located at the front but is not included in the listing.