Greystones

Greystones is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier, with alterations in the 20th century. The walls are a mix of whitewashed cob and stone, and the roof is thatched, with a half-hipped section on the left and a hipped section on the right. There are axial stacks, one with a brick shaft and the other with a truncated shaft.

The house originally had a three-room plan, with a two-storey porch to the right of centre that provides direct access to the right-hand room. The original layout is partly hidden by later alterations, but it probably consisted of three rooms and a passage, with a hall stack backing onto the passage. The right-hand end is unusually short.

The front of the house is asymmetrical, with a three-window front on one side and one window on each side. Windows are two-light casements with 20th-century square leaded panes, except for a one-light window on the ground floor to the right.

Inside, the centre room contains an open fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel and a brick-lined bread oven. Exposed 18th or 19th-century joists remain, along with 17th-century panelling that has been added to the room. The room to the left has a roughly-chamfered crossbeam and has been divided into two spaces.

The roof rafters visible upstairs are straight, though the apex was not inspected during the 1987 survey.