Cleavedown

Cleavedown is a cottage dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. It is built of rendered stone rubble and cob, with a thatched roof that is hipped at the right end, and has wings that are half-hipped. A stone rubble stack is located at the left end of the main range, featuring a tapered cap and a brick shaft. A rendered stack is present at the rear of the right-hand room. The original layout includes a principal room on either side of a central staircase, with a kitchen to the left and a parlour to the right. A small two-storey wing projects forward at the left end, and a small single-storey thatched outbuilding is situated at the front right end. The cottage has a two-window front. The windows are largely from the 19th century, consisting of a two-light casement with six panes per light, a three-light casement with three panes per light over a similar casement to the left, and a two-light casement with six panes per light to the right of a 19th-century plank door. A door is located on the inner face of the left-hand wing, which also has a 20th-century two-light casement over a three-light casement with two panes per light. A lean-to is attached to the left side. A single-storey outbuilding on the right side contains a cased-in ovolo moulded doorframe on its inner face. A Victorian postbox is set into the exterior wall. The interior has been largely altered in the 20th century, but some 19th-century joinery survives, and earlier fabric is likely concealed within.