Little Gate

Little Gate is a detached cottage located in the centre of Loddiswell, dating from the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of limewashed or rendered rubble and features a thatched roof. It has a long plan with a single room depth; the right half has a slightly higher roof level, suggesting that it may have originally been a long-house. The back wall is set against rising ground.

The cottage is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are four two-light casements and one single casement, while the first floor has five two-light casements, most of which have glazing bars. At the left end, there is a 20th-century door in a glazed porch with a thatched hood. A former doorway, located between two brick ridge stacks, now has a 20th-century window. The left gable, facing the street, features a large external stack and two two-light 20th-century casements, one at each level. The back of the building is mostly plain, but there is a two-light casement at ground level near the gable end, a small deep-set single light at mid-height, and another two-light casement at ground level to the left, with a two-light casement above a single light far left in the section with higher eaves.

An attached lower building at the far gable end is not of special interest. Inside, there was a former cross-passage with fireplaces backing on both sides. The room to the left includes another room, possibly a former dairy, now used as a kitchen. The room to the right has a bressumer fire and a cloam oven, partly under a spiral stair, and an outer room that previously had a smoking chamber. There are two major transverse chamfered beams. The roof, which was partly inspected, has early principals. Some 19th-century doors have strap hinges. A 16th-century two-light wood mullioned casement with arched lights, which is said to have been removed from the back wall in the room at the gable end, was taken out in the 20th century.