Atway Cottages

This is a row of three cottages situated at a right angle to the road. They were built in the late 16th or 17th century, with later additions. The cottages have solid walls; number 1 is mostly covered in old roughcast, with a gable facing the road rebuilt in concrete blocks in 1984. Numbers 3 and 4 have 20th-century render. The roofs are thatched. Numbers 1 and 3 share a single roof with rendered chimney stacks in each gable, and a third stack on the ridge, off-centre to the left. Number 4, which is set back slightly from the road, has a rendered stack in its right-hand gable.

The cottages are two storeys high. Number 1 has two windows wide at the front, with the windows grouped to the right. It features a 20th-century gabled entrance porch, off-centre to the left, two windows to the left of it, and one to the right. All windows have late 19th or early 20th-century wood casements with two panes per light. The gable facing the road has two windows in each storey, matching those on the front wall, each with two lights. Number 3 is two windows wide, with a doorway to the left of the ground storey, and three windows to the right. All windows except the right-hand ground-storey window have 20th-century wood casements with small panes. Number 4 is two windows wide, with casements similar to number 3 in the second storey, and in the right-hand window of the ground storey. It has a late 20th-century window to the left of that ground-floor window, and a late 20th-century door on the extreme left.

The interior of number 1 was not inspected, but visible through a window, the ground storey shows chamfered ceiling-beams and a large open fireplace in the southwest gable. Number 3 has a large fireplace in the northeast gable of the ground-storey room, with a chamfered wood lintel featuring step-stops and two notches at each end. The upper storey of number 3, and all of number 4, were not inspected. The cottages form a notable group with Atway Farmhouse and occupy an important position beside the A382.