Crossway And Cross Cottage

Crossway and Cross Cottage is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with external alterations made in the late 19th century. The building features a render over stone and cob construction, with a gabled slate roof. There is a 20th-century rendered stack at the right end and a 17th-century rendered stone stack at the left gable end. A similar lateral stack in the center of the front wall was rebuilt at the top around 1986.

The layout consists of four units: a parlour on the left, a hall in the center, and a service range on the right. The house is two stories tall and has a five-window range. Crossway, located to the left of the lateral stack, has 20th-century two-light casements on the first floor above a half-glazed door, which is flanked by segmental arches over similar casements. Cross Cottage, to the right, has a three-window range with flat rendered arches over 20th-century casements of up to four lights and a 20th-century porch featuring a 19th-century plank door set in a chamfered surround. The right-end gable was rebuilt around 1986, and there is a late 16th-century to early 17th-century stair projection and a 20th-century outshut at the rear.

Inside, Cross Cottage has stop-chamfered beams on the ground floor. Crossway retains significant late 16th-century to early 17th-century interior features: the front door opens into a room on the left, which has a late 16th-century to early 17th-century plank and stud partition with ogee-stopped chamfers on the studs. There is a stop-chamfered bressummer over an open fireplace to the left, and fine plasterwork on the overmantle features intertwined initials A and E in a love knot with the date 1709, set in a scrolled foliate surround. The ceiling has early 18th-century plasterwork, including a cornice and an oval panel with a wreathed surround. The room to the right contains two panels of a 17th-century plank and stud partition, a chamfered beam with roll and ogee stop, and 19th-century winder stairs leading to the rear. On the first floor, there is a 17th-century stop-chamfered doorframe leading from the stairs to a gallery along the rear wall, which has an early 19th-century two-panelled door and a 19th-century plank door to the rooms. The late 16th-century to early 17th-century A-frame roof features heavy scantling with lap-jointed collars and a ridge purlin set in notched apexes.