Sunnyside Cottages

Sunnyside Cottages comprise three cottages, likely originating in the 16th century, although significantly rebuilt in the late 17th and early 18th centuries when a single house was divided into two and a third cottage was added, probably later in the 18th century. The cottages were modernized around 1980. They are constructed of plastered cob on rubble foundations, with cob stacks topped with plastered 20th-century brick, a thatch roof, and a slate roof on a 19th-century store extension.

The long, south-facing range contains three cottages. The cottage to the right (east) end (No. 1) has a two-room plan with a central lobby entrance and a central axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. This section appears to be entirely of late 17th to early 18th-century origin, with a 20th-century service extension to the rear. The central and left cottages (No. 2) are still two self-contained cottages. The central cottage has a three-room plan with its central room served by an axial stack on the left (west) end. This part contains work from several periods and has a 20th-century service extension to the rear. The left-hand cottage has a single-room plan but formerly comprised two rooms. It has a projecting end stack, and appears to be wholly 18th century. A 20th-century outshot is on the left end, and a 19th-century store is set back from the front at the same end.

No. 1 has a regular, almost symmetrical, two-window front with 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars and a central 20th-century plank door. No. 2 has a less regular five-window arrangement of 20th-century casements, few with glazing bars. The front projects forward for the left three windows, although the break between the two cottages is further left; the original doorway to the center cottage is blocked by the right window of the forward section and is now replaced by a 20th-century door at the right end. The left-hand cottage has a two-window arrangement with a central door, now 20th-century. The continuous roof is gable-ended to the right and hipped to the left. The left outshot has a monopitch roof of 20th-century asbestos slates, and the 19th-century store has a 19th-century slate roof coated with concrete and hipped at the end.

Inside No. 1, the fireplaces are built of stone rubble with plain, soffit-chamfered oak lintels. The joist ceilings have been replaced, and the roof is not accessible. In No. 2's central cottage, the small right room has 17th-century half beams against cob crosswalls, both chamfered with scroll stops. The original rear doorway includes a papered-over 16th-century oak shoulder-headed door. The middle room might have replacement ceiling joists of large scantling. The rubble fireplace has its high oak lintel obscured and includes a cloam oven. The roof over this cottage is inaccessible. The left cottage has a rubble fireplace with a naturally arching and roughly-finished oak lintel and an inserted or relined 19th-century brick oven. The two-bay roof here is carried on an A-frame truss with pegged and nailed lap-jointed collar.