Andrews Cottage

Andrews Cottage is a house, possibly originally a Dartmoor longhouse, dating to the mid to late 17th century, with possible earlier origins, and modernised around 1980. The construction is granite stone rubble on boulder footings, with large roughly-dressed granite quoins and plastered cob along the wall tops. It features a granite stack with a plastered brick top, and a thatch roof.

The building may have started as a three-room and through-passage Dartmoor longhouse, facing southeast on a flat site. Evidence suggests the original passage doorway has been removed. The shippon, at the northeast end, is now used as a garage. An axial stack originally backed onto the passage, and there is now no internal access between the hall and lower end. A front door now leads directly into the unheated inner room, which also contains a straight flight stair. The roof structure, including that over the shippon, consists of A-frame trusses with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars.

The front of the house has an irregular two-window arrangement of 20th-century casements with glazing bars, the upper ones with thatch eyebrows. A 20th-century part-glazed front door is positioned in the middle of this section. The right end (shippon) section is blind, showing no obvious evidence of a blocked front passage doorway. The roof is half-hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right, with a 20th-century garage door in the right end wall. The rear wall has similar 20th-century casements to the front, with a doorway in the position of the former rear passage doorway. A hayloft loading hatch is directly above the doorway, and a slit window serves the shippon. The interior contains plain carpentry detail, and the hall fireplace is granite ashlar, but plain. The group value relates to its architectural and historic importance within the local context.