Little Thatch

Little Thatch is a cottage located on the south side of High Street in Chittlehampton. It likely dates from the late 17th century and has been extended and altered in the 20th century. The exterior features painted rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatch roof that has gable ends. A stone rubble stack has been heightened in brick at the left end.

The interior has been modified in the 20th century to create a large single principal room, with a 20th-century extension at the right end that is one room wide. Originally, the core of the cottage consisted of a large kitchen/parlour on the left, with a now-blocked entry into a smaller room on the right, which was divided to form a small dairy at the rear next to the original staircase. Part of the original stone wall partition at the right end of the kitchen/parlour still exists. There was also a former entrance at the rear (roadside) on the left end, which has been replaced by an entrance at the left gable end leading into a 20th-century single-storey gable-ended porch. This porch incorporates the base of a lateral stack with a bread oven in its rear wall, which was part of a separate dwelling that has since been demolished and stood at right angles to the left gable end of Little Thatch.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window range, with 20th-century fenestration. The right-hand ground floor window was inserted into a blocked doorway. There is a catslide thatch roof over the 20th-century outshut and extension at the right end. The gable-ended porch at the left gable end has a pantiled roof. Inside, there is a chamfered cross ceiling beam and a narrow hollow moulded lintel above the fireplace with a bread oven in the left-hand room.