Collacott Collacott House

Collacott and Collacott House are two houses that originated as a farmhouse, dating to approximately the early 16th century. The building underwent remodelling and extensions in the early 17th century and possibly the 18th century. The construction utilizes slatestone rubble walls, partly rendered and incorporating some cob. The roof is primarily thatched, with a gable-ended slate roof to the cross wing. Projecting rubble lateral stacks are situated at the front, and a brick stack sits on a rubble base to the rear wing.

The building’s plan has evolved over time, beginning with Collacott at the front, which originally featured a two-room-and-through-passage layout, likely with a hall to the right. The hall may have been previously open to the roof, but this is obscured by the early 17th-century rebuilding of the right-hand room as a short parlour cross wing. A rear stack was likely inserted into the left-hand room at this time, when another room was added behind it. A separate, one-room wing was built in the later 16th century, initially containing a large fireplace on its end wall and functioning as a bakehouse. A further range was added behind the rear wing, running parallel to the front of the house; its function remains unclear due to a lack of architectural features. At one point, the house was divided into four cottages but is now two separate residences, with a rear L-shaped range forming Collacott House.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with a three-window arrangement and cross wings at each end, the left-hand one being longer. The windows are modern, small-paned casements. Those in the right-hand cross wing have old oak lintels and stone dripcourses. A gabled, single-storey porch, likely from the 17th century, is positioned to the left of center, featuring a cambered, roughly chamfered wooden lintel and stone seats inside. Behind the porch is the original chamfered wooden door frame with a two-centred arch. A modern plank door is present. The gable on the left-hand end was rebuilt in the late 20th century but retains its eaves cornice. A late 20th-century casement window and doorway are also located there. The rear of the building features a steep downward slope, making the building appear tall. A modern, single-storey addition serves as a porch.

Internally, the right-hand room of the front range features a chamfered crossbeam with chamfered and bar-stopped joists. It contains an open fireplace with a massive rough slate lintel and dressed stone jambs. The passage showcases roughly chamfered joists. The left-hand room has roughly chamfered cross beams with run-out stops and a small fireplace with rough stone jambs and a replacement wooden lintel. The connecting wing in the rear of the building contains chamfered ceiling beams, an open fireplace with a wooden lintel, and early 17th-century roof trusses above the right-hand cross wing, which have slightly curved feet, threaded purlins, and a morticed apex; early collars are nailed across, though the originals were likely higher.