3, South Street

No. 3 South Street is a small house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and a gable-ended asbestos slate roof. There are brick stacks at each end, with one offset from the ridge at the rear to the left. The house has a two-room plan, with a larger room on the right heated by an end fireplace. The left-hand room likely had its fireplace inserted into the rear wall. A 19th-century rear outshut has been added.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular two-window front that includes early 19th-century 12-pane horizontal sliding sashes. The central entrance has a panelled and part-glazed 19th-century door beneath a gabled slate doorhood supported by wooden brackets. A 19th-century plank door at the left-hand end likely leads to a passageway at the rear of the house.

Inside, the right-hand room retains its original fireplace, which features a chamfered and ogee-stopped wooden lintel and a cloam oven, along with a rough ceiling beam. The left-hand room has a small fireplace with a plain wooden lintel and early 19th-century panelled shutters. The roof may be original or from the early 18th century, constructed of hardwood timbers in simple lapped A-frames, with unusually long pegs.