The Cobbles

The Cobbles is a house, possibly originally built as a pair of houses, dating from the early to mid 17th century, with some modernization in the mid 19th century and 20th century. The building features mixed construction; the side and back walls are made of plastered stone rubble, while the front wall is plastered timber-framing. It has stone rubble stacks at the left end and rear, with 19th and 20th century brick chimney shafts and some older chimney pots, topped by a slate roof.

The plan is a 17th-century right-angle design with two parallel ranges, representing two houses by the 19th century. The front facade has two windows and appears mid 19th century, but structurally it is 17th century, with side walls that are corbelled out to support a second-floor jetty. Each former ground-floor room has a doorway to the right, both now fitted with 20th-century part-glazed doors. All windows, including the first-floor canted bay windows, are horned 4-pane sashes. The plastered front is lightly treated to resemble ashlar, with stucco quoins at each end featuring alternate blocks with vermiculated rustication. The double-gabled roof has shaped bargeboards and terracotta finials at each apex.

The rear of the building includes at least one original 17th-century oak window frame with an ovolo-moulded mullion. Inside, although much of the interior has been modernized in the 19th and 20th centuries, there is enough 17th-century fabric remaining to indicate that the original structure is well-preserved. The main beams have plain chamfers, and the axial beam over the ground-floor room shows no signs of an original partition, though the axial partitions on the upper floors are likely from the 17th century. The fireplaces in the left stack include a ground-floor one that was rebuilt in the 20th century and a first-floor one with a 20th-century Windsor chimneypiece. The right rear first-floor fireplace is original, made of stone rubble with a chamfered and step-stopped oak lintel, now partly blocked to fit a 19th-century cast-iron grate. A newel stair rises from the first to the second floor around a timber post in a stone alcove. On the top floor, only the undersides of relatively slender truss principals are visible, making it unclear whether they are from the 17th or 19th century.