Hingston Cottage

Hingston Cottage is a pair of cottages that may have originally been one house, dating from the early to mid 17th century. The structure features rendered rubble walls, possibly incorporating some cob, and has a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. There are two plastered rubble stacks, one axial and one at the gable end.

The original layout may have been a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end to the right, which is now No. 2. The hall stack backs onto the passage, and there is an unheated inner room. An outshut was added to the front of the lower room in the 18th or 19th century, and a lean-to was built behind the inner room in the 19th or early 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical one-window front and three windows on the ground floor, which are 20th-century two-light casements. The first-floor window is a half dormer with an eyebrow in the thatch above and features a probably 18th-century square section two-light wooden mullion window frame with 19th-century casements inserted. The outshut to the right has a catslide roof, part of which extends to the left as a pentice over a wide 18th-century plank door to No. 2. No. 1, to the left, has a door in a 20th-century glazed porch at the left-hand end.

Inside No. 1, there is a waney chamfered unstopped cross beam in the main room, a large open fireplace with a massive chamfered slate lintel and dressed stone jambs, and an oven on the right-hand side. Winder wooden stairs are located behind a partition between the two rooms. The roof timbers were renewed in the late 19th or early 20th century.