Huish Cottages

Huish Cottages is a lodge to Tapeley Park, built around 1850-1860 and now divided into two homes. The building is made of unrendered stone rubble with painted quoins and features a patterned slate roof with crested ridge tiles, while the rear has an asbestos slate roof. It has carved bargeboards and moulded stone kneelers, with two ridge stacks and a stack at the rear gable end of the east wing.

The cottage has a symmetrical central entrance and a two-room plan, acting as a cross wing to another cottage at the rear, which includes a verandah across its front and an outshut at the rear. The building is two storeys high. The west front displays a symmetrical two-window range with two-light metal casements featuring polygonal leaded panes. The ground floor windows have transoms, while the first-floor windows are in half dormers with ornate wavy pierced bargeboards. The window openings are deep chamfered and painted stone.

The central doorway is set in a similar opening but has a depressed two-centred arched head, with a plank door and a gabled open porch supported by brick piers, also featuring pierced wavy bargeboards. The left-hand gable end has a projecting stack with set-offs, while the right-hand gable end features a first-floor central oriel on a moulded corbel supported by a buttress with set-offs, flanked by single-light windows.

The south front is asymmetrical, with two half dormers—one of which has had its bargeboards partly removed—similar fenestration and doorway, and a slate roof verandah that is hipped at the right end. This verandah abuts the cross-wing on the left and is supported by three brick piers. The interior has not been inspected.