Glen Cottage And Adjoining House To South West

Glen Cottage and the adjoining house to the southwest is a house and attached cottage dating to approximately the mid-17th century, with possible earlier origins and later additions and restoration in the 20th century. The building is constructed of painted and partly plastered stone rubble and cob, with thatched roofs, gabled at the right-hand end and half-hipped at the left-hand end. Later additions at the right-hand end and at the rear have asbestos tile roofs.

The original plan consisted of a three-room-and-through-passage layout, with a gable-end stack heating the lower end and an axial stack in the centre room, which appears to have been unheated unless the axial stack originally served it. A projecting stair turret was situated between the left and centre rooms. A two-storey outshut was added behind the central room, and a one-room-plan extension was built to the lower right-hand end in the 19th century, likely when the house was divided into three cottages. It was later reunited but has recently been divided into two dwellings.

The front facade presents an asymmetrical four-window range, with a later blocked doorway and remains of a porch on a projecting stair turret to the left of centre. The windows are 20th-century casements with glazing bars. A 20th-century plank door with a thatched canopy is situated to the right of centre, and a small two-storey extension with a 20th-century casement above and glazed door below is set back to the right. A two-storey outshut extends to the rear, alongside a single-story flat-roofed extension.

Inside, a staircase has been inserted into the former passage. The centre and left-hand rooms have replaced ceiling beams. The left-hand room features a fireplace in the axial stack with a chamfered timber lintel with hollow step stops, and a lower inserted lintel recovered from Plymouth Sound. This lintel is brattished and may be part of a ship. There's a new fireplace in the back of the axial stack in the centre room, and the lower end room features chamfered ceiling joists and a blocked fireplace. Only two 17th-century trusses survive in the roof, located above the higher left-end room, with straight principals and halved notched leg jointed collars. The remainder of the roof structure is of nailed softwood.