Gratnor

Gratnor is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with an outshut added in the 18th century. It features granite rubble walls and a granite rubble chimney stack with drip-courses. The roof is slate, with a gable end on the left and a half hip on the right.

The cottage has a two-room layout, with a hall-kitchen heated by the gable end stack on the left and an unheated room on the right. There are no remaining partitions on the ground floor, and the two external doors face each other, suggesting there may have been a through passage at one time, though this would have reduced the room sizes. The outshut at the rear extends about two-thirds of the way up the house from the right.

The building is two storeys high and has a one-window front. On the ground floor, there is a window and a doorway to the right. The left side features 20th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, while the large ground floor window is a metal frame casement. The central doorway is enclosed in a weatherboarding porch with a lean-to slate roof and a 20th-century part-glazed plank door. To the right, there is a small single fixed light window on the ground floor with leaded panes, old glass, and a stanchion bar from the 18th century, with a 20th-century three-light casement above. The first floor has a similar old window on the adjoining gable end of the outshut, with two lights and a 20th-century casement below.

The interior has not been fully inspected but includes a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and roughly chamfered cross beams with joists. There is also a framed straight run staircase, likely from the 19th century. Gratnor is an unusual survival of a small 17th-century cottage that remains in a relatively unspoilt and traditional state.