Throttle Kenniford And Cottage Adjoining At The North West

A pair of cottages, likely dating to the 18th century or earlier. They are built of cob on a stone rubble base, with whitewashed and rendered elevations, and have slate roofs; the left end has a hipped form, while the right end is gabled. There are two rear projecting lateral stacks, one partly dismantled, and a brick shaft to the right end stack. The rear elevation faces the road, and the front elevation looks onto a courtyard. The right-hand cottage is believed to be the earlier, possibly originating in the 17th century, though visible details from a 1985 survey were primarily 18th century.

The left-hand cottage is three rooms wide, with a central entrance leading directly into a heated room. Smaller, unheated rooms were originally on either side, with the right-hand room initially part of Throttle Kenniford. The adjoining cottage, Throttle Kenniford, has a main range of one heated room plus a single-room plan extension on the right end, formerly an outbuilding. The main range originally comprised two rooms; the left-hand room was heated from the rear lateral stack (partly dismantled), and the right-hand room from the end stack. A blocked first floor window on the left end wall suggests that it was formerly an external wall.

The cottages are two storeys high, with an asymmetrical two-by-two window front. The left-hand cottage has a 20th-century central porch with a sloping slate roof, and 2-light casements with small panes. A ground floor window on the right is a well-preserved complete 18th-century iron casement, with two lights and 20 panes per light, and hasp handles. Throttle Kenniford has two first-floor gabled dormers and a 20th-century front door on the extreme left. Other windows are 2- and 3-light 18th-century iron casements with small panes, some with replacement opening lights.

The interior of the left-hand cottage features one chamfered cross beam in the central room. The roof space was not inspected but is said to contain pegged timbers with straight principal rafters. Throttle Kenniford has a boxed-in cross beam. The survival of the iron casements is a significant feature, and the cottages are grouped with the cottage at right angles to the road.