Yonder Thatch

Yonder Thatch is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with possibly an earlier core. It is constructed of plastered granite stone rubble, featuring granite stacks—one of which has been rebuilt with brick—and both stacks have plastered brick tops. The roof is thatched. The building has a three-room plan, facing south, with the rear terraced into the slope. The main rooms are located at each end, each with an end stack. The left room, originally the kitchen, has a partly rebuilt chimney, while the right room served as the parlour. There is a central entrance lobby and a small unheated room behind, likely used as a dairy. The stairs rise alongside this dairy. Easton Cottage adjoins on the right side, and it is possible that the two cottages originally formed a single farmhouse, although they have been separate dwellings since the 17th century.

The house is two storeys high, with a symmetrical frontage centered around a doorway that features a 20th-century part-glazed and panelled door. The ground floor has two windows, and there are four windows on the first floor, all of which are similar late 19th to early 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The roof connects to that of the adjoining Easton Cottage on the right and is hipped on the left side.

Inside, both main rooms have soffit-chamfered beams; the kitchen crossbeam is unstopped, while the parlour axial beam has straight cut stops at the front. The kitchen fireplace was rebuilt in the late 19th to early 20th century, but the parlour fireplace is original, made of granite with a soffit-chamfered and step-stopped oak lintel. Although the roof is not accessible, the feet of straight principals are visible, suggesting that the original A-frame truss roof still exists.