Bullsmead

Bullsmead is a cottage dating back to the 17th century, with alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of unrendered stone rubble, with some cob to the side and rear walls. The roof is pantiled, with gable ends featuring brick shafts rising to stone rubble stacks.

Originally a two-room plan, with direct entry into each room, the left-hand doorway was blocked in the 20th century and a window inserted. Two short, two-storey gabled-ended wings were added to the rear in the late 20th century. While later alterations have obscured the original layout, the core of the cottage is believed to be confined to the right-hand room, which retains good quality 17th-century moulded ceiling beams and a fireplace lintel. A 19th-century staircase located in the left-hand rear corner was removed in the late 20th century. A solid cob wall partition between the two principal rooms was divided by a doorway cut in the 20th century. The 19th-century remodelling created a symmetrical arrangement of two cottages sharing a mirror plan. Passages to the front entrances were originally created but have since been removed. The original cob partition wall between the front rooms is substantial and may have been a gable end wall.

The exterior has two storeys and a four-window front. The upper floor has 20th-century windows. The ground floor windows are mainly late 19th and early 20th century two-light casements with six panes per light, except for the blocked doorway, which has a two-light casement with eight panes. All ground floor openings are topped with rough stone lintels.

Inside, the right-hand room features two cross ceiling beams and an end bressumer, all ovolo-moulded with elaborate bar and hollow step stops carved in a rams horn shape, with incised patterning. There's also an ovolo-moulded timber fireplace lintel with similarly enriched stops. The left-hand room contains a 19th-century cambered brick arch over the fireplace and a single, unchamfered cross ceiling beam. Both rooms have bread ovens.

The roof over the right-hand room retains a single 17th-century truss with straight principals, a dovetail collar, and trenched purlins. The roof over the left-hand room is an early 19th-century structure with lighter timbers.