Little Cudworthy

Little Cudworthy is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof. There are two rendered rubble stacks: one axial and one at the left gable-end on a projecting rendered rubble base. The original layout was likely a three-room-and-through-passage plan, but the lower end to the right appears to have been demolished or significantly reduced. The entrance is through a porch that creates a baffle entry in front of the hall stack, with the original passage located at the right-hand end. The hall stack backs onto the passage, and the inner room is heated by a gable-end stack, which may have been added in the 18th century. There is a 19th-century outshut at the rear of the hall and another against the left-hand end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has three windows, featuring mid to late 20th-century two-light casements, including a three-light window towards the left-hand end on the ground floor. The porch, located towards the right-hand end, has a thatched roof and a 20th-century plank and glazed door. There are large outshuts against the left-hand end and the rear wall.

Inside, the hall has an open fireplace with a chamfered and straight-cut stopped wooden lintel, along with roughly chamfered cross beams. The inner room contains a fireplace with a plain wooden lintel and rough ceiling beams. The roof structure consists of straight principal rafters with threaded purlins and collars that are halved. The timbers are slightly darkened, but it is unlikely to be due to smoke-blackening, as the construction suggests a date no earlier than the early 17th century.