Mole Cottage And Cottage Adjoining To East

Mole Cottage and the cottage adjoining to the east are a house and cottage. Originally a single farmhouse, the lower section was rebuilt in the late 18th century, and the house part was later divided into two cottages, although it is now occupied by a single household. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, with a thatched roof featuring gable ends; the cottage section has a lower ridge. There are rendered rubble stacks at the right end and the rear, a lateral hall stack with offsets, and a brick stack at the left end. The original plan included a through-passage, though the front and rear openings have been blocked. The right side originally contained a hall and parlour. The lower section may have been a shippon (animal shelter) that was later rebuilt as a small, single-cell cottage. The building is two storeys high and has a five-window front. The windows are mostly 19th and 20th century, with 2-light casements, 2 panes per light. Two large buttresses are present on the Mole Cottage side. On the ground floor, to the left of a 20th-century cottage door, is a 2-light casement window with 6 panes. There are two 3-light casements, 2 panes per light, the left one inserted into a blocked doorway of the former through passage. A plank door leads into the hall, alongside a 2-light casement. A lean-to addition with a corrugated asbestos roof is on the right end. The hall and parlour windows at the rear project outward, in line with the hall stack, and have a pantiled canopy. Inside, the hall and parlour ceilings have wide-chamfered beams with run-out stops. A surviving section of the through-passage features a four-panel plank and muntin screen with a 4-centred arch to a chamfered door surround, and an old 3-plank door. A straight-headed 17th-century door surround is enclosed within the staircase in the hall, corresponding to a similar door surround in the chamber above, both indicating that a former projecting stair turret has been demolished. The 17th-century roof structure remains largely intact, with three trusses having short curved feet, lap-jointed collars, and two tiers of trenched purlins and a diagonally set ridge purlin. There is no visible smoke-blackening.