Higher Aish Cottages

Higher Aish Cottages are a pair of cottages that were formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with later additions at the rear. The cottages have stone walls covered with roughcast and an asbestos-slated roof, which was originally thatched. A granite ashlar chimneystack is located on the right-hand gable, while a rendered stack with offsets and thatch weatherings projects from the left-hand gable wall. The building features a two-room plan with remnants of a shippon at the right-hand end and stands two storeys high.

The front has two windows, all of which contain 20th-century metal casements. There are panels of slate-hanging between the upper and lower-storey windows; the slates on the right are covered with cement, while those on the left appear to have been renewed. Smaller slate panels are visible above the upper-storey windows. An off-centre gabled entrance porch is located to the left, and this doorway may have been added later. An old plank door is found in the right-hand side wall, topped by a wooden hood with a hipped slated roof. The stone rear wall of the former shippon survives to the right, with a doorway adjacent to the house.

Inside No. 2, which is on the right, there is a chamfered upper-floor beam with scroll-stops. The ground-floor fireplace has jambs made of squared granite blocks, and the lintel has been rebuilt in brick. The roof trusses over No. 1 appear to be original, featuring heavy, well-made timbers with gouged carpenter's marks, collars pegged to the face of the principal rafters, which have slots for thatching spars on their backs. There is a stone wall between the cottages on the ground storey, but only a timber-framed wall on the upper storey, with no wall at all in the roof space. The interior of No. 1 was not inspected.