31-37, SOUTH STREET

31 to 37 South Street is a row of four cottages located in Hatherleigh, dating from around the mid-17th century. The cottages have plastered and rendered cob walls with a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. There are three brick axial stacks and a projecting rendered rubble stack with a brick shaft at the left end.

No. 31 may have been built later than the others and features a one-room plan with later additions at the back. Nos. 33, 35, and 37 originally had two-room plans with a central entry, although No. 35 has had its left room converted into an outbuilding.

In terms of exterior details, the cottages are two storeys tall, except for No. 31, which has three storeys. No. 31 has a regular two-window front with 20th-century two-light casements on the first floor, a 19th-century horizontal sliding sash on the second floor, and two round-headed late 19th-century sashes on the ground floor, along with a central 20th-century panelled door. No. 33 features a regular two-window front with a 20th-century two-light casement on the left of the first floor and a late 19th-century four-pane sash to its right, with mid-19th-century three-light casements on the ground floor and a central late 19th-century four-panel door. No. 35 has an asymmetrical three-window front with mid-20th-century two-light casements, tall double doors leading to the outbuilding on the left, and a late 19th-century six-panel door at the centre. No. 37 has a regular three-window front with 20th-century three-light casements on the first floor and large fixed three-pane windows on the ground floor, along with a central 20th-century part-glazed door.

The interior of No. 35 includes a fireplace in the left-hand part, now the outbuilding, which features a cambered wooden lintel that is chamfered with ogee stops. The interiors of the other cottages were inaccessible during the survey but may also contain early features.