Old Thatch

The Old Thatch is a house dating from around the early 16th century, with significant remodelling in the 18th century and alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone, possibly with cob at the rear, with painted stone rubble visible in places. The roof is thatched, with a gable at the lower right end and a hip at the left end, featuring eyebrow eaves. Axial and gable end stacks are present, with rebuilt brick shafts.

The original plan comprised two rooms. The hall on the left has been divided and now includes a small kitchen at the front. The axial stack of the hall abuts what was originally a cross or through passage, now containing a WC at the rear. A straight staircase is located on the lower right side of the former passage. The larger room at the lower right end has a gable end stack and may not have been originally heated. A section of the house, at least the centre, was originally open to the roof, heated by an open hearth fire, with remains of a smoke-blackened truss visible over the staircase. The house was re-roofed in the 18th century, likely when floors were inserted. While the hall's axial stack may be an earlier addition, the lower end stack appears to be later. A 19th-century outshut projects from the front of the lower end, and a single-storey extension is a 20th-century addition to the rear.

The east front is asymmetrical, with three windows on two storeys. It features small 20th-century 2-light casement windows without glazing bars. A 20th-century glazed door with a thatched porch sits at the centre, and a small single-storey outbuilding projects to the right. The rear elevation also has 20th-century casements, alongside a large, single-storey extension on the right and a large raking buttress on the left corner. The lower north end has 20th-century casements on the ground floor.

Inside, the left-hand room (hall) has a slate-on-edge fireplace lintel in the axial stack, with closely exposed chamfered waney cross-scantling and a late-20th-century fireplace. The roof was largely replaced in the 18th century, and features collars lapped and pegged to straight principals. A single earlier smoke-blackened principal from the original truss survives on the lower side of the former cross-passage, originally having threaded purlins.