Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a former poorhouse and sexton's cottage, now used as a house. It dates from around the early to mid 17th century, with some rebuilding in the early 19th century. The construction is of stone rubble and cob, with a Delabole slate roof, gabled on the left and hipped on the right, formerly thatched. It features a stone stack at the left end and a large 17th-century rendered stack with a brick shaft on the ridge. The house was originally a single depth, three rooms wide, and may have originally had a cross passage.

The right-hand end of the house is of 17th-century origin. A 1680 glebe terrier describes the house as being divided into two, one section comprising a "lower room which is a wood house and one chamber over it which is planked." This likely refers to the two right-hand rooms, with the first-floor room heated by the 17th-century stack, and previously accessed by an external stair at the right end. A circa 17th-century ground floor fireplace, belonging to the same stack, heats the middle room, which was presumably the hall of the second property, possibly consisting of two rooms and a through passage.

Around the early 19th century, the entire left-hand end of the house was rebuilt or remodelled with Tudor-style windows. More recent 20th-century renovations and repairs have been undertaken. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window asymmetrical front, with an off-centre shallow gabled stone porch leading to the stair hall. Most windows are 3-light casements with timber arched lights and diagonal leaded panes, with slate sills. The ground floor window on the right is a 2-light casement with six panes per light, inserted into a blocked doorway.

Internally, on the ground floor, there is a timber lintel with straight cut stops and exposed joists. The early 17th-century fireplace in the middle room is large, with chamfered granite jambs and a chamfered timber lintel with run-out stops. The first floor on the right has a large fireplace with a timber lintel, an axial beam, and exposed joists, introduced in the late 20th century. Pegged tie beam trusses have a probably later collar. An early 19th-century architect's plan and elevation of the house exists in the parish records.