No 5 Including Garden Railings To South-West

No. 5, including the garden railings to the south-west, is a house dating from the late 16th to early 17th century. It is constructed of plastered granite stone rubble, with a granite stack and a plastered brick chimney shaft, and it has a slate roof, which was formerly thatch. The building has a two-room plan and faces south-west, set back from the street. It is a conversion of part of a three-room-and-through-passage plan hall house. The inner room, now the entrance lobby, is at the left end. The hall, which is now the sitting room, contains a 20th-century staircase and has an axial stack that backs onto the site of the former passage, which is now a small room. The service end crosswing has been divided off and is now known as Orchard Cottage. The house has two storeys.

The exterior features an irregular three-window front, which includes one 19th-century casement with glazing bars; the others have been replaced with PVC casements around 1980. The front door, located near the left end, features a 20th-century door and a contemporary shingle-roofed porch. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside, the basic fabric of the house, as far as can be seen, dates from the late 16th to early 17th century. The partition between the hall and the entrance lobby (the former inner room) is an oak plank-and-muntin screen, with the muntins being chamfered with straight cut stops. The hall has a soffit-chamfered axial beam with straight cut stops, and the fireplace is blocked by a 20th-century grate. The roof features clean uncollared true cruck trusses.

The front garden is enclosed by a late 19th-century granite rubble wall with ashlar coping, which is topped with cast iron spear railings. A granite ashlar corner post has a pyramid cap.