Myrtle Cottage And Cob Cottage

Myrtle Cottage and Cob Cottage are a pair of cottages dating to around the mid-17th century, with a likely addition from the 18th century. They are built with plastered rubble and cob walls, and have thatched roofs – gable to the left end and hipped to the right. There are two axial stacks constructed of rendered rubble with brick shafts, and a brick stack at the gable end. The cottages originally followed a simple two-room plan each. Cob Cottage has both rooms heated by an axial stack, and a newel stair at the rear of the left-hand room. A small wing was added to the rear of the right-hand room, probably in the 18th century. The exterior has an asymmetrical facade of three bays on each side, featuring mainly 20th-century small-paned 2-light casements. Myrtle Cottage has an early 19th-century 12-pane sliding sash window on the ground floor to the left, and a 20th-century stable-type door to the right, covered by a tile hood. Cob Cottage has a disused 20th-century plank door on the right, with a 20th-century timber lean-to and single-storey extension now providing access. The interior of Cob Cottage is the only part accessible; the ceiling beams have been replaced. The left-hand room contains a fireplace with a roughly chamfered wooden lintel and stone newel stairs in a rear projection. Elements of straight principals visible on the first floor suggest a roof was reroofed in the 18th or 19th century.