1 And 1A, High Street

Nos 1 and 1A on High Street are a pair of cottages that were originally one house, dating from the mid-17th century with significant remodelling of a 16th-century structure and later additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features mainly plastered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended roof covered with asbestos slate. There is a brick stack at the right gable end and a rear lateral stack.

The original layout was a three-room and through-passage plan, with the lower end on the right heated by an end stack, while the hall has a rear lateral stack. In the late 20th century, the property was divided into two cottages at the lower end of the hall. The exterior presents an asymmetrical five-window front, with small openings. Most windows are 19th and 20th-century two-light casements, and there is a 19th-century fixed 12-pane light to the right of the right-hand door to No. 1A, which features an early 19th-century six-panelled door. No. 1 has a 20th-century stable-type door to the left of centre.

Inside, No. 1 has a lateral fireplace with a wooden lintel that is chamfered with convex stops, and there are chamfered cross beams with straight cut stops. At the higher end of the hall, which was moved from the lower end, there is a 17th-century plank and muntin screen with bead mouldings along the edge of the muntins and its original door. No. 1A retains its cobbled passage and features an open fireplace with a rough wooden lintel and an oven. The roof of No. 1 has one original truss over the hall, consisting of a pair of cruck form timbers with mortices for collar and threaded purlins. The wood is darkened but not blackened, suggesting it may have been lightly smoke-blackened for a central hearth hall that was only open to the roof for a short time. There is an 18th-century truss over the lower end.