Westacombe Cottage

Westacombe Cottage is a 17th-century house with additions dating to the 19th and 20th centuries at the rear. The house is constructed of whitewashed and rendered rubble-stone and cob walls, with a thatched roof and brick gable-end and lateral chimney stacks positioned off-centre. The original three-room layout runs east-to-west, with a later north-facing wing extending at a right angle.

The two-storey, gable-ended cottage has a pitched thatched roof. The front elevation has four bays, with two-light, three-paned windows on both the ground and first floors, except for a single-light first-floor window to the west. The front door is a plank door covered by a thatched canopy supported by slender chamfered posts. A pair of timber French windows are on the west elevation. The east elevation features a first-floor Gothic-style, pointed-arched window and a large projecting chimney. The rear of the house includes a two-storey cross wing with a pitched roof and a cat-slide single-storey addition. A later single-storey lean-to has been added to the centre of the rear range, incorporating French windows. The original rear wall is visible at the west end, featuring a two-light, three-paned window.

The ground floor has been refurbished in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the fire surrounds in the main range are modern replacements. A fragment of timber panelling with linenfold detailing beneath a window in the central room appears to be a 19th or early 20th-century copy. The ground floor of the rear wing contains a fireplace with a bread oven and a timber bressemer. Surviving 17th-century joinery includes winder-stair treads and a square newel post (with modern panelling replacing an earlier banister), some door frames and chamfered ceiling beams. The first-floor bedroom at the west end retains a plaster cornice with a double band of intertwined foliage. The collar-beam roof survives well, with timber-pegged principal trusses that have undergone some re-engineering, especially close to the bases.