Part Woods Partwood House

Partwood House is a pair of houses, originally a single dwelling, dating from the early to mid-17th century. It may incorporate late medieval origins, with later additions from the late 17th or early 18th century, and alterations from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The construction is of rendered cob and stone rubble, with a gable-ended asbestos slate roof to the main range, and a thatched roof to a projecting section on the left-hand end. There are four brick stacks, two axial, and one at each gable end.

The original plan comprised three rooms and a through passage, with a smaller room to the left. A hall stack originally backed onto the passage, and there was a two-storey hall bay at the front of the higher end. The inner room was heated by a gable-end stack. A set-back section to the left-hand end likely began as a small, separate cottage in the late 17th or early 18th century. C19 additions form a leanto along the rear wall. The house was divided into two properties in the late 19th or early 20th century, and the hall bay was converted into a porch.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, displaying a three-window facade (six windows on the ground floor). The left-hand house, Partwood House, has two windows, all 20th century, consisting of one and two-light small-paned casements. A 20th-century plank and part-glazed door is positioned to the left of centre, with a stable-type door at the right-hand end, leading to the former passage. The thatched addition is set back on the left-hand end, with a two-window appearance. Part Woods, to the right, features a two-storey gabled porch at the centre, housing a 20th-century part-glazed and panelled door.

Inside Part Woods, a high-quality framed ceiling in the hall showcases intersecting chamfered beams with heeled bar and hollow step stops. The fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel with straight-cut stops, and rough granite jambs, with an oven to the left. The fireplace in the inner room has a chamfered wooden lintel with hollow step stops, rough granite jambs, and a cloam oven on the left. Roof timbers were replaced in the 20th century.