Whyddon Court

Whyddon Court is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century, which was renovated around 1980. It is constructed from plastered granite stone rubble, possibly with cob, and features a stone rubble stack with a granite ashlar chimney shaft and a thatched roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main block facing north and originally designed with a three-room layout. The small unheated room on the right (west) end was likely used as a dairy. An axial stack serves back-to-back fireplaces between the other two rooms and the lobby entrance. The centre and right rooms have been combined, and there is an unheated rear block, now the kitchen, which projects from the right end and may be a later addition. The cottage is two storeys high and has an irregular three-window front with 20th-century casements featuring glazing bars. The front doorway is located to the left of centre and now has a 20th-century door behind a contemporary gable and thatch-roofed porch. The main roof is gable-ended, while the rear block has a half-hipped roof. Inside, both main rooms have plain soffit-chamfered crossbeams, and the fireplaces are made of granite rubble with bead-moulded oak lintels. The roof has not been inspected.