Living Waters

Living Waters is a house that likely dates back to the 17th century, with extensions made in the 18th or early 19th century and modernizations in the 20th century. It features a combination of plastered and whitewashed stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, complete with eyebrow eaves. A projecting stone rubble stack is located at the right-hand east gable end, with a pronounced list and slate weathering.

The original layout of the house consisted of a two-room plan with a central entrance. The right-hand east room has a gable end stack, while the left-hand west room was likely unheated. In the 18th or early 19th century, a one-room plan addition was made to the left-hand west end, along with an outshut added at the rear of the original cottage, which features a stack on the rear right-hand corner.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window south front, showcasing small 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars. The ground floor has a modern French casement on the left, and a 20th-century porch is positioned at the right-hand east end, featuring a late 19th-century inner door. The rear north elevation has a thatched roof extending over the outshut on the left, with a stack on the right-hand (northwest) corner and 19th-century casements with glazing bars.

Inside, the partition between the original rooms has been removed, revealing a chamfered axial beam, exposed later joists, and a large fireplace in the right-hand end wall with a replaced lintel. Notably, there is a coffin-shaped niche in the right-hand end of the rear wall of this room, which is said to have housed the village coffin when not in use. The left-hand west addition features 20th-century exposed ceiling joists. The roof space was not accessible, but the feet of what are likely the original straight principal rafters are exposed on the first floor.