Three Chimneys

Three Chimneys is a house dating from around the mid 17th century, possibly a remodelling of an earlier structure. It features rendered cob and rubble walls, with a thatched roof that has a gable at the left end and rear wing, and a hipped right end. There are brick stacks at the right-hand end and on each gable end. The building has an L-shaped plan with two rooms at the front on either side of a cross passage, and an additional room behind the left side. It is unusual for a small house like this to have three heated rooms, and it is reputed to have once been three cottages, although this was likely a secondary arrangement. The house may not have been built in its current form, as the rear wing was probably added later, but it shares the 17th-century roof structure of the front range, indicating that the entire building may have been remodelled at that time. This is supported by the presence of an apparently earlier roof truss at one end of the front range. A 19th or early 20th-century outshut was added behind the right-hand end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front. On the first floor, there are two mid-20th-century two-light casements on the left and right, beneath eyebrows in the thatch, and a small 19th-century leaded two-light casement between them. The ground floor features three late 20th-century small-paned casements and a 20th-century plank door to the left of centre. The wing extends behind the left-hand end with an outshut adjoining it.

Inside, the right-hand room and rear wing have closely spaced narrow-chamfered joists. Each fireplace has a roughly chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops, and there is a cloam oven with a door in the left-hand fireplace. The roof construction over the main range and rear wing consists of raised crucks with purlins and evidence of collars halved on with dovetail joints. However, towards the left end, there is a surviving rear blade of what may be an earlier truss, located very close to another truss that has a mortice for a removed collar.