Datchcott

Datchcott is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with renovations from the late 20th century. It features colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings and has a water reed thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, which includes a stone stack with a projecting bread oven.

The cottage is designed with two rooms in a single depth layout. The right side contains a hall/kitchen with a semi-circular projecting rear stair turret, while the left-hand room is unheated. The current entrance is located in the left gable end; however, the original 17th-century entrance may have been at the front, or the cottage might have been larger originally, possibly featuring a through passage entrance that no longer exists.

The building is two storeys high. The garden elevation is asymmetrical, with the right side concealed by a late 20th-century corrugated iron lean-to. There is one 2-light late 20th-century casement window with glazing bars on the left. Access to the cottage is through a late 20th-century glazed porch on the left return. The rear stair turret has a 2-light window, and a 1-light window retains square leaded panes, while a 3-light window on the left return also preserves some leaded glass.

Inside, the left-hand room has been subdivided in the late 20th century. The right-hand room features a late 20th-century grate that may cover earlier features. The late 17th-century doorway to the stair turret is ovolo-moulded and stopped, but the stairs have been dismantled.