Shorts Cottage

Shorts Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that has undergone some modifications, including a roof that was raised and replaced in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a concrete tiled roof featuring gable ends. The rear outshut has a corrugated asbestos roof. There are two brick stacks, one at the left end and another with a moulded cap positioned just off the ridge.

The cottage has a single room on each side of a through-passage. The hall on the right is heated by a stack that backs onto the passage and contains a staircase that runs up beside the front wall. A 19th-century continuous outshut extends to the rear, along with a small lean-to at the right end. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window range with 19th and 20th-century fenestration. The right side features two-light casements with eight panes per light on each floor, while the left side has a six-pane light over a fifteen-pane light, all adjacent to a doorway with a 19th-century timber architrave and a shaped lintel encasing a 17th-century door surround.

The entrance features a 17th-century ledged door made of three planks with cover strips. Inside, there is a 17th-century chamfered door surround with worn scroll-stopped durns at the doorway between the hall and the through-passage. The hall retains old joinery with H-L hinges, and the fireplace in the hall has a 19th-century range made by James Tucker of Barnstaple.