Rock Cottage

Rock Cottage is a small house that likely dates back to the 16th century, with extensions made in the 18th and 19th centuries and alterations in the 20th century. The structure features rendered rubble and cob walls and a hipped thatched roof. There are two rendered rubble stacks: one is a projecting lateral stack at the front, and the other is axial to the right. The building may have originally been open to the roof with a central hearth, later being ceiled in the 17th century when the front lateral stack was added to the hall or kitchen on the left. A one-room extension from the 18th century is located at the left-hand end, while a 19th-century one-room extension is at the right end.

The house has two storeys and an asymmetrical front with three windows, featuring early 20th-century two and three-light casements with diamond 'leaded' panes. There is a 19th-century slate-roofed open-fronted lean-to porch at the center to the right of the lateral stack, which has a 19th-century plank door behind it.

Inside, one side-pegged jointed cruck survives over the hall. Although there is no access to the roof space over the hall, original hip timbers remain at the left-hand end within the extension and appear to be darkened, suggesting the roof may be smoke-blackened. The hall fireplace features a chamfered wooden lintel with hollow step stops and an oven on the left side. A half beam at the passage end of the hall, which is cut off at the rear, has an ogee stop. The central cross beam in the hall is chamfered and has hollow step stops. Above the hall fireplace are three small plaster plaques; the central one is a lion's head, and the outer two are grotesque faces, which may date back to the 17th century. Rock Cottage is an unusual example of a two-room late medieval house that retains several interior features and a relatively traditional exterior.