2 Adjoining Cottages Approximately 5 Metres North Of Greenwood Cottage

These are two adjoining cottages located approximately 5 metres north of Greenwood Cottage. They were likely built in the late 17th or early 18th century. The construction consists of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, with thatched roofing; the roof has a plain ridge, a gable end to the left, and is hipped at the right end. Brick stacks are present, including an axial brick stack.

Originally, one cottage likely had a principal room on each side of a through-passage, with a higher-end room, probably a parlour, on the left and a kitchen on the right. In the 19th century, the cottage was divided into two separate dwellings. The original winder staircase was located in the front right-hand corner of the left-hand room, and a second staircase was added to the rear left-hand corner of the right-hand room, although it has since been removed and converted into a small scullery. Each cottage has a rear outshut; the outshut on the left has a corrugated iron roof, while the one on the right is constructed of stone rubble with a slate roof.

The right-hand cottage is smaller and now has a single-room plan with a staircase running up the rear wall in the left-hand corner. Originally, it contained a small pantry at the upper end, and a 19th-century lean-to kitchen outshut is located at the rear.

The exteriors are two storeys high and feature a total of six windows. The left-hand cottage has a large 20th-century, three-light casement above a two-light window (two panes per light). A smaller, early 19th-century, two-light casement with six square leaded panes per light illuminates the staircase above and slightly to the left of a plank door, which is sheltered by a corrugated iron lean-to canopy. The right-hand cottage retains 19th-century fenestration, including two three-light casements (three panes per light) on each floor and a central doorway with a panelled door and a bracketted timber canopy.

The interior of the left-hand cottage has rough cross ceiling beams in the principal rooms. Thin partitions define the through-passage, and a 19th-century winder staircase is located in the left-hand room. Both cottages originally had end fireplaces, now concealed by 20th-century grates. Otherwise, much of the interior remains unspoiled, particularly the upper floor rooms which have limewashed plastered walls. The interior of the right-hand cottage was largely altered in the 20th century, but retains a small section of probably 18th-century raised and fielded dado panelling beside the fireplace.

The roof space is accessible only over the right-hand cottage. It contains very rough, slender pegged principals, waney rafters, and purlins. The roof space over the left-hand cottage is only partially accessible, with three boxed-in trusses. There is no evidence of smoke-blackening in either roof space.

An outbuilding adjoining the right end of the cottages contains a gable end stone rubble and cob stack and may have originally been a separate cottage, later reduced to a storage room with a lowered roof in the late 19th or early 20th century.