Fursdon Cottage

Fursdon Cottage is a house that was originally two cottages and an adjoining dairy, dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is built of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob or rubble stacks that have plastered brick shafts, and it features a thatched roof. The structure originally consisted of two identical one-room cottages facing south, each with a stack on the right end wall, and the dairy is located on the left (west) end.

The building is two storeys high and has a somewhat balanced six-window front, with all windows being circa 1970 casements. There is a door located to the right of the centre, which is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled porch. The roof includes four half-dormers with gabled thatch, arranged in pairs near each end. The current door is in the original position for the right cottage, while a central window to the left indicates where the door to the left cottage was located.

Inside, the left cottage features crossbeams that are chamfered with straight-out stops, and the oak lintels over the fireplaces have scroll stops on the right and a straight cut on the left. The right cottage may still have its original winder stair, with the lowest step made of solid oak. Each cottage has a two-bay roof supported by oak A-frame trusses with dovetail-lap collars. In the left cottage, the truss foot is lap-jointed and pegged onto the post, representing a late form of jointed cruck. The former dairy has plain carpentry details.