Hope Cottage Rolle Arms Windy Thatch

Three adjoining cottages, likely dating to the 17th century or possibly earlier, with significant fabric concealed behind later alterations. The construction is of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, with a thatched roof. The roof is hipped to the front wing on the left and gabled at the right end. There are brick stacks at the right end, a shallow rounded stack at the left end, two rear lateral stacks (one rendered with offsets, one with a tapered cap), and an unrendered stone rubble stack to the gable end of the rear wing.

The original plan may have been a single 3-room and cross-passage tenement, with the lower end on the right. Later wings were added in the 17th and 18th centuries to the rear right end and the front left end. Windy Thatch, on the left end, has a direct entry into the principal front room from the inner face of the front wing, with a smaller room at the rear. The Rolle Arms appears to be two rooms, with the right-hand room heated by a rear lateral stack. Hope Cottage, on the right end, has a room to the left heated by a rear lateral stack and a room to the right heated by the gable end stack of the entrance passage, with a probable kitchen wing to the rear right end.

The cottages are two storeys high. The 19th-century windows are largely intact. Hope Cottage has a three-window front with two-light casements; a two-light casement with three panes per light above a three-light casement with eight panes per light to the left, and a four-paned sash window to the right of a 20th-century door with a gabled hood. The Rolle Arms has a three-light and two-light casement with six panes per light on each floor, and a doorway at the left end, close to the angle of the front wing. Windy Thatch has a two-light casement with six panes per light above a four-panelled door to the inner face of the wing, and a three-light casement with six panes per light to the front end. The interiors have not been inspected, but may contain early features, and the roof structure may be medieval.