Pixton Cottage

Pixton Cottage is a small house dating from the early to mid 17th century. It features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatched roof. There are projecting rendered rubble stacks at each gable end; the right-hand stack has a drip course near the top, while the left-hand stack has a brick shaft. The layout consists of a two-room plan with a central lobby entry in front of a spiral staircase, which may be original and leads out of the right-hand room. Both rooms are heated by the gable end stacks, with the right-hand room serving as a larger hall or kitchen that has a projecting window bay at the front.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical one-window front and two windows on the ground floor, featuring early 20th-century small-paned two-light casements. There is a projecting gabled bay to the right of centre with a window on each floor, and a part-glazed and panelled door to the left of centre. At the front of the right-hand end, there is a semi-circular oven projection with a thatched roof. A late 19th or early 20th-century outshut is attached to the right-hand end.

Inside, the left-hand room has a very heavy chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. The fireplace features a chamfered wooden lintel, although the opening is now blocked. The first floor and roof space were inaccessible at the time of the survey, but early roof timbers may still be present. This small 17th-century house retains an interesting plan form that has survived relatively unaltered.