Dunideock Thatch

The property is a house, dating to around the early 17th century, with later alterations and an extension built in 1948. The exterior is whitewashed and rendered, with a thatched roof that is gabled at both ends. There is a projecting stack on the right end and a further axial stack. The plan is currently single depth, comprising four rooms. While later alterations have obscured the original layout, the earliest part of the house is the right-hand section, between the stacks, which originally contained two heated rooms, one on either side of a passage. The right-hand room appears to be a 17th-century hall or kitchen/parlour, while the left-hand room may originally have been a small, unheated service room with the stack inserted at a later date. Two additions are located at the left-hand end: a small, unheated room slightly left of centre and a 1948 sitting room at the extreme left. A small room has also been inserted at the rear of the passage.

The house has two storeys and an asymmetrical four-window front with regular window placement; a change in the front wall’s plane indicates the left-hand end of the original portion of the house. The front door, positioned to the right of centre, leads to the passage and is sheltered by a thatched porch with walls made of breccia ashlar, and features a 17th-century moulded doorframe, though the lintel has been partially cut off. The windows are largely 20th-century casements, with 1, 2, and 3 lights per sash and 2 panes per light, likely set in altered embrasures. A small, square 17th-century timber window frame with a timber lintel is located on the right end of the house.

Inside, the right-hand room retains many original 17th-century features, including a plank and muntin screen with chamfered muntins and run-out stops. This screen has been altered. The open fireplace has jambs made of breccia ashlar and a moulded timber lintel with runout stops; the ceiling features a chamfered cross beam with bar stops and exposed joists. An iron fireback, dated 1649 and bearing the initials "F A B", is also present. A section of a second plank and muntin screen separates the small left-hand room from the passage. A jointed cruck roof truss, side-pegged and mortised at the apex with a collar mortised into the principal rafters, remains over the right-hand end. The survival of these early 17th-century features is considered good.