Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a house, likely dating to the late 16th or 17th century. The north end was rebuilt in the 20th century, and a kitchen was added to the north end of the east side during that time. The walls are a mix of roughcast over limestone rubble at ground level and cob in the upper storey. The roof is covered in asbestos slates, with a hipped form at the north end. Prominent brick chimneys, with tapered tops and thatched weatherings, stand on the south gable and along the ridge, with a smaller 20th-century chimney slightly north of the centre. Originally a pair of cottages set at a right angle to the road, with a barn (now rebuilt) at the north end, the building was converted into a single house in the late 20th century. It likely began as a two-room house with a central doorway (now a window) and gable stacks, though the original entrance might have been through the front gable.

The west front, which is the main elevation, has five windows: the two leftmost belonging to the rebuilt barn. These incorporate 20th-century wood casements with leaded panes and a 20th-century door with a lean-to porch. The older part of the house has three 19th-century windows along the ground floor. A 2-light wood casement with six panes per light sits in the middle, flanked by smaller 1-light windows, the rightmost having four panes. Above these is a 20th-century canopy with a pent roof. The second storey has three 19th-century wood casement windows: the central one with two lights, and the outer ones with three. The left-hand window has 20th-century leaded panes, while the other two retain mostly old glass with three panes in each light.

The south gable, facing the road, features a doorway on the left and a rectangular oven projection on the right. A built-in seat forms a porch next to the oven, both sharing a slated pent roof partly covered with cement. Above the doorway is a 2-light 19th-century casement window with two panes per light. A single 4-pane sash window, hinged at the top, is situated in the ground floor of the east wall, extending as far as the added kitchen.

Inside, each ground-floor room has a gable fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel; the northern fireplace has small scroll-stops. Both fireplaces feature stone-lined ovens with stone surrounds. The upper floor is supported by heavy joists, mostly lightly chamfered, running east to west. The partition between the two rooms appears to have consisted of rough studs nailed to a floor joist, with lath and plaster on each side. Rebuilt sections of the west wall of the southern room suggest a previous window insertion. Original roof trusses, probably 18th or early 19th century, remain beneath a 20th-century roof structure, these feature plain feet resting on the wall-tops and pegged collars to the principal rafters. The house was owned by Charles Wills, as indicated by the 1841 tithe map and schedule (held at Devon Record Office), and was not associated with the church.