Wayside

Wayside is a cottage dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with later enlargements in the 18th or 19th century. It is constructed from plastered granite stone rubble, featuring granite stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and has a thatched roof.

The cottage has a three-room-and-through-passage plan, facing south. The outer rooms are heated, with the right room having a projecting gable end stack and the left room heated by a rear lateral stack. The central room is unheated and has a cross passage leading to the right room. It is possible that the left room is an addition, although there is no definitive proof of this. The building is two storeys high.

The exterior displays an irregular three-window front, featuring 19th and 20th-century replacement casements with glazing bars. The front passage doorway is located to the right of centre and contains a 19th-century plank door, which is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled porch supported by rustic posts. The roof is gable-ended to the right and half-hipped to the left.

Interior inspection was limited to the ground floor, which shows that the cottage has undergone mostly superficial modernisations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The only visible carpentry is a crossbeam from the late 16th to early 17th century in the right room, featuring broad soffit chamfers and step stops. The fireplace in this room is blocked by a 20th-century grate, as is the fireplace in the left room at the time of listing. An axial beam in the central room is boxed in. The roof was not inspected but is likely to be original.

Wayside is an attractive and relatively unmodernised cottage situated among a group of listed buildings in the centre of Throwleigh village.