The Old Shop

The Old Shop is a house with origins dating back to the 16th century and possibly earlier. It features roughcast rendered rubble and some cob, topped with a slate roof that has a gable end on the right. The building likely started as a three-cell through-passage plan, with the room to the left of the passage later becoming part of a shop connected to the lower end of Hakeford cottage.

The exterior includes a large lateral front hall stack with a batter and offsets, and the shaft has been heightened in brick. The house is two stories tall and has a three-window range featuring 19th-century two-light casements, each with eight panes. To the left of the stack, there is a corrugated asbestos pentice that projects over a bread oven and covers another two-light casement with eight panes per light. The entrance features a 16th-century four-centred arched chamfered doorframe with a 20th-century plank door. There is also a two-light hall window with eight panes per light and four-paned sidelights, and another two-light casement on the right, also with eight panes per light.

At the right end, there is a lean-to garage with a corrugated iron roof that covers a blocked raised doorway on the gable end. The rear of the building has a 20th-century extension with a lean-to corrugated asbestos roof. Inside, remnants of a pair of sawn-off raised cruck blades can be seen, while the rest of the roof timbers date from the 20th century. A 17th-century doorframe with a chamfered surround and run-out stops is located at the head of the stairs.

The through-passage features a plank and muntin screen, which is three planks wide on the right and a single plank wide on the left of the four-centred arched doorway. Stairs inserted at the left end have slightly reduced the length of the screen. A further screen that once divided the hall and inner room remains partially intact, with only the headrail and shoulder-headed doorframe still in place. The planks, one of which has an incised figure of St. Dorothy carved on it, have been reinstated into their original positions.