West Gosland Down

West Gosland Down is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building has rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, featuring a projecting rendered cob and rubble stack at the right gable end with a brick shaft. The layout consists of a two-room plan, with a larger heated room on the right; there may have originally been a cross-passage. An integral outbuilding at the left-hand end was converted into part of the accommodation in the later 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with four windows, which include early 20th-century two-light casements on the first floor, a single light late 20th-century casement to the left, and a mid-20th-century casement below. All windows are set in small openings that are likely original. There is a late 20th-century hipped tiled roof porch to the right of centre, featuring a contemporary plank door set in a pegged wooden frame with a cambered head. A stable-type door is located towards the left-hand end.

Inside, the right-hand room has an open fireplace with a chamfered and convex-stopped wooden lintel. The lintels for the windows and front doorway are also chamfered and stopped. The interior features closely spaced, roughly chamfered cross beams. The first-floor front windows have chamfered and stopped lintels, and there are possibly original window seats with two steps and moulded edges; one is carved with the initials J.W. and another with W.C. and the date 183... The roof trusses are likely original, consisting of straight principals with curved collars that are chamfered on their soffit, set into the trusses and pegged on. This house is surprisingly complete for a small 17th-century structure and retains several features that are often lost over time.