Hillside and Cherang Tuli

Hillside and Cherang Tuli are two houses, originally likely a farmhouse, probably dating to the 17th century, with substantial alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The walls are rendered rubble cob, with a gable ended asbestos slate roof, previously thatched. There are two projecting lateral stacks, one at the front and one at the rear, with a rendered rubble stack at the front, left of centre, featuring a brick shaft and a brick gable stack at the right end.

The original layout was likely a three-room plan with a through-passage, incorporating a hall heated by the front stack and an inner room by the rear stack. Later alterations and extensions have obscured the original plan to some extent. Cherang Tuli now comprises a hall, passage, and lower room with an extension beyond, while Hillside incorporates the inner room, extended at the higher end with a 20th-century lean-to. The houses are two storeys high.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with Hillside to the left and Cherang Tuli to the right. Hillside has a two-window facade featuring late 20th-century two-light casements with simulated leaded panes. A gabled porch is positioned to the left of centre, with a similar window on its front wall and a 20th-century plank door in a lean-to extension on the left end. Cherang Tuli has a more asymmetrical four-window front, with five windows on the ground floor, featuring mid-20th-century two and three-light casements with diamond leaded panes. One ground floor window, second from the left, was formerly a doorway. A projecting lateral stack is located to its left. A 20th-century conservatory runs along the rear wall.

The interior shows no readily visible original features, although 20th-century fireplaces likely conceal earlier ones. The roof space was not inspected, but on the first floor of Hillside, the feet of fairly insubstantial straight principals are visible. The houses occupy a prominent roadside position in the centre of Coffinswell, grouping with other historic buildings.