Wayside Cottage

Wayside Cottage is a house that dates from the early to mid-17th century. Originally divided into cottages in the 19th century, it was reunited and altered around 1920. The building is constructed of plastered cob and rubble, with brick end walls from circa 1920, and features brick and rubble stacks topped with a thatched roof.

The house has a two-room layout facing south, with a central through passage and rear outshots. It has a right end stack and a left rear lateral stack. The structure is two storeys high and has an irregular three-window front, featuring 19th and 20th century casements with glazing bars, including some small panes in the first-floor windows. The left ground floor window blocks the door from the 19th-century cottage. A central 19th-century plank door is sheltered by a hipped thatch hood. The roof is gable-ended, and the left end wall, built around 1920, has two casements on each floor.

Inside, both rooms feature chamfered oak crossbeams with scroll stops, and the right side of the passage has an oak plank-and-muntin screen, with chamfered muntins displaying scroll stops on both sides. The original roof is an A-frame truss design with pegged lap-jointed collars.