No 7 (Country Flavour) And Attached House To Right No 9

No. 7 (Country Flavour) and the attached house to the right, No. 9, are two houses located on Fore Street in Witheridge. They date from the early 17th century and were altered in the 18th century when No. 9 was added. The buildings are roughcast and colourwashed, likely built on a rubble core, with a straw-thatched roof that is hipped to the right.

In terms of layout, No. 7 consists of two rooms and a central passage, with each room heated by a gable-end fireplace; the right room is the larger of the two. No. 9 is a single-room depth addition. In the 19th century, the left room on the ground floor of No. 7 was converted into a shop, which led to the blocking off of the through-passage.

The exterior features two storeys with an asymmetrical arrangement of windows: three on the first floor and two on the ground floor. On the first floor, there are two 2-light 19th-century casements with glazing bars to the left, a blank centre window, and two 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor. The right-hand windows have 20th-century 2-light casements. There are two door openings; to the right is a recessed six-panelled door with the top four panels glazed, topped by a small 19th-century fretwork gabled hood. To the left is a recessed 19th-century half-glazed door, with a three-pane shop front adjacent to its right, featuring pilasters, a cornice, and ornamental iron cresting.

Inside No. 7, the left room on the ground floor has a fireplace with a small opening, a cambered wooden bressumer that is chamfered with bar stops, and rubble jambs. There are also two early 18th-century panelled doors leading to the first floor. The roof, likely renewed in the 18th century, has straight principals that are exposed in the first-floor rooms of No. 7.