Buttercombe Cottage

This is a house, likely originally a farmhouse, dating probably to the late 16th or 17th century, or possibly earlier. It is constructed of rendered stone and possibly cob, with a thatched roof that is gabled at each end. The original layout comprised three rooms and a through-passage, with a solid wall separating the former hall and parlour. The house has one-and-a-half storeys. The front doorway, situated slightly left of centre, features a chamfered wood frame with a cranked head, and a 20th-century plank door set within a lean-to porch. To the left of the doorway, the front wall has been replaced with garage doors. To the right is a rectangular projection, believed to be an oven. The fenestration is irregular, with 19th-century wood casements or 20th-century replicas in all windows. There are four windows to the right of the ground storey and three swept dormers to the left of the second storey. Chimney stacks are located along the ridge of the roof. The former hall stack has late 19th or 20th-century brick shafts; a pair of attached stone stacks between the hall and parlour have rectangular shafts with a projecting course of slates forming the base to tapered caps. Inside, the ground storey rooms have chamfered ceiling-beams with rounded step-stops. The hall and parlour fireplaces have chamfered wood lintels, the hall fireplace also featuring rounded step-stops. A lower room, now a garage, has no visible fireplace. The rear end of the through-passage is occupied by a window, but externally cracked doorheads similar to those on the front elevation are visible above it. The roof trusses mostly have plain feet, but two pairs of side-pegged jointed crucks are present over the hall and passage. The roof-space has not been inspected.