St Annes

St Annes is a late 15th-century house with alterations and additions dating to the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The house is built of roughcast stone rubble and cob, and has a pink asbestos tile roof.

The plan comprises a through-passage at the east end which gives access to a two-storey extension at the rear. To the west of the through-passage are two heated reception rooms. A late 20th-century cottage, Cherry Cottage, is attached to the west gable end and formerly incorporated the first-floor, right-hand (west) room of St Annes.

The north elevation, which is the principal façade, is two storeys high and has three bays with 19th-century casement windows containing glazing bars. A late 19th-century panelled and glazed door is set within the doorway to the left-hand (east) end of the elevation. An axial chimney stack is situated between the first and second bay, and a ground-floor projection may have been its oven. Raking buttresses are positioned either side of the central bay window opening, which appears to have once served as a doorway. The third bay has late 19th-century panelled and glazed double doors to the left and a 19th-century casement window to the right. The west gable end is obscured by Cherry Cottage. The rear elevation is built into a bank, and behind the through-passage and former hall is a 20th-century two-storey extension with a flat roof. The east gable end has a late 19th-century casement window on each floor.

Inside, a late 15th-century chamfered and shouldered doorframe is located behind the through-passage. The ceiling beams in the through-passage and reception rooms are unchamfered and appear to date to the 19th century. The west end room has an unchamfered 19th-century timber lintel over the fireplace. On the first floor, a slightly-curved foot of the principal rafter of the hall truss is visible, with mortice holes for the missing collar and threaded purlins. Behind the inserted axial stack is a smoke-blackened principal truss, and another smoke-blackened truss was found on the lower end (east) wall during a 1993 inspection.