Tracey Hill Cottage

Tracey Hill Cottage is a building that may have originally been two separate cottages. It dates from the mid to late 17th century, with minor additions from the late 19th century and some alterations from the late 20th century. The cottage is constructed of rendered cob and has a thatched roof made of wheat straw, with rendered end stacks.

The layout consists of a three-room plan facing northeast. There are integral end stacks and a central unheated hall, with the front entrance located at the right-hand end. The left-hand room has a blocked front doorway, and a modern staircase has been added at the rear of this room. A partition that separated the central room from the left-hand room was removed, likely in the late 20th century. There is a 19th-century outshut at the left-hand end, which has been altered in the late 20th century, and a late 20th-century outshut at the right-hand end. The cottage is two storeys tall, with one-storey outshuts.

The exterior features an asymmetrically-fenestrated front, primarily with late 19th-century two- and three-light wooden casement windows—three on the first floor and four on the ground floor. The second ground-floor window from the left is a late 20th-century fixed window that was formerly a doorway. The doorway between the first and second windows from the right has a late 20th-century two-leaf door, a wooden lintel, and a late 20th-century thatched rendered porch.

Inside, the right and left-hand ground floor rooms have joists that span from front to back, while the central room likely has 20th-century joists. The end rooms feature 17th-century fireplaces with stone jambs and chamfered wooden lintels; the left-hand fireplace includes a bread oven with a 19th-century cast-iron door. The front doorway has been reduced in width, as indicated by the former wider jambs. The roof, dating from the 17th century, has trusses made of straight principals and pegged lap-jointed collars. According to the owners in February 1988, the cottage was previously two separate cottages that were joined together at a relatively late date, although there is no evidence of this in the building itself.