East Week Cottage

East Week Cottage is a farmhouse dating from the mid 17th century, with a 19th-century service wing. It is constructed of granite stone rubble laid in rough courses, featuring granite stacks, including the main stack that retains its original granite ashlar chimney shaft with moulded coping. The roof is slate, having previously been thatch.

The house has an L-shaped layout, with the main block facing south and backing onto the lane. This block has a three-room plan, with an unheated inner room at the left (west) end, likely used as a dairy. The two main rooms are separated by a large axial stack that serves back-to-back fireplaces; the central room is probably the hall, while the room on the right end serves as the kitchen. There is a front lobby entrance located between these two main rooms. The service wing, likely built in the 19th century, projects forward at right angles from the inner room end and features an outer lateral stack.

The exterior of the main block has a nearly symmetrical three-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars, and there are two additional windows on the service wing. The front doorway now has a 20th-century door in a traditional style, set behind a 19th-century stone rubble porch topped with a gabled slate roof. Both wings of the building have gable-ended roofs.

While the interior was not available for inspection during the survey, a mid-17th-century ovolo-moulded crossbeam and a contemporary plank-and-muntin screen were noted in the hall. East Week is a scattered hamlet that features several attractive listed buildings.