Honeysuckle Cottage Nos 1 To 5 (Consecutive) With Front Boundary Wall And Steps

Honeysuckle Cottage, consisting of Nos 1 to 5 in a row, features a front boundary wall and steps. The cottages date from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and are rendered on cob or rubble with roofs of slate or thatch. They are all two storeys high.

No 1, known as Old Stack, has two windows with small two-light glazing-bar casements. There is a deep-set glazed door on five stone steps to the left and a large external eaves stack immediately to its right, with a small square stack at the left gable. It has a slated roof.

No 2 also has two windows with small two-light glazing-bar casements and a 20th-century door off-centre to the left. It has a slate roof and a brick stack to the right. This cottage retains a complete 19th-century roof structure beneath a later raising and features a cased Barlow rail used as a spine beam in the lower room.

No 3 has a narrow two-window front with two-light glazing-bar casements, except for a single light on the ground floor left. There is a 20th-century door with a thatched hood off-centre to the left, and the upper windows have eyebrow shapes. It has a rendered stepped stack, raised in brick, on the right.

No 4 is wider with a two-window front and two-light glazing-bar casements. It has a 20th-century plank door under a thatched hood off-centre to the left and shares a stack with No 3. This cottage has a thatched roof.

No 5, known as Honeysuckle Cottage, has two windows but was likely built in two stages; the left half has a thatched roof while the right half is slated. It features two-light glazing-bar casements and a central 20th-century plank door with a thatched hood, along with a large stack on the left.

The backs of the row are mostly blank, but No 3 has a gabled slate-hung extension, with one two-light and one single-light casement. According to the Kingston History Society's booklet 'Kingston, a South Hames Village (1980)', photographs from 1925 show that little has changed since then, aside from the thatched hoods, some new doors, and replacement casements. The low rubble boundary wall across all the frontages, along with the steps, is included in the listing.