Cheriton Cottage

Cheriton Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located in St Giles on the Heath. It is constructed from colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings and features a gabled corrugated asbestos roof, which was formerly thatched. The cottage has an axial stack and a left gable end stack that is capped below the asbestos roof. Originally designed as a three-room house with a cross passage, the stack of the hall/kitchen backs onto the passage, and there is a small unheated inner room. The lower end may have originally been unheated as well.

The hall/kitchen includes a two-storey shallow bay at the front, which is covered by a catslide roof. The eaves were likely raised in the 19th century, during which time the lower end stack may have been added to create a parlour. The cottage stands two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front, with the projecting hall bay located to the right of the front door that leads into the former passage. The projecting bay features one ground floor and one first floor three-light casement window, each with three panes per light, along with a small first floor two-light casement window with two panes per light. The ground floor window to the right is a 20th-century casement.

Inside, the passage has been truncated at the rear. There is a good plank and batten door with a finger latch and a chamfered 17th-century doorframe leading into the hall/kitchen, which has an open fireplace with a timber lintel that has been modified in the 20th century. The hall/kitchen features unchamfered ceiling beams of large scantling, and the staircase is located against the rear wall of the hall. The roof space has not been inspected but may hold interest. The cottage is shown as Churchtown Cottage on the Ordnance Survey map.