Primrose Cottage

Primrose Cottage is a house located on the north side of West Street in Witheridge. It dates back to the 16th century, was floored in the 17th century, and underwent significant remodeling in the early 19th century. The cottage features gabled ends and a thatched roof, with roughcast and colourwashed walls, likely made of rubble and cob. The layout consists of a hall and an inner room in a three-unit and through-passage plan. The lower end on the left is now a separate dwelling known as Lantern Cottage. The hall has a rear lateral stack, while the inner room is unheated. Originally, the house was open to the roof, with floors added in the 17th century, and there is an early 19th-century wing at the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high with two 12-pane sash windows that have exposed sash boxes and wooden cills. The door is located to the left of the ground floor, featuring a wooden doorcase with pilasters, an entablature, a cornice, and a panelled door. Inside, the hall has a chamfered axial ceiling beam with an ogee stop, and the fireplace in the hall has a plain wooden bressumer. The house retains 17th-century joinery, including doors and window shutters. The roof features a jointed cruck truss over the hall, which is smoke-blackened, with lightly-sooted thatch, rafters, and battens. Some parts of the roof were renewed in the 18th century.