Dibbe Cottage Dibbe House Lower Dibbe Cottage

Three cottages, formerly a single farmhouse, dating to the mid 17th century, with possible earlier elements. The building was modernised and divided into cottages around 1970. The cottages are constructed of plastered stone rubble and cob, with areas of massive blocks of coursed granite ashlar. Granite stacks are present, two featuring original granite ashlar chimneyshafts, and the roof is thatched.

The three cottages are built down a hillslope, facing north-east. Originally, they occupied a three-room-and-through-passage plan farmhouse. Dibbe Cottage occupies the former inner room and has a gable-end stack. Dibbe House occupies the former hall and passage, with an axial stack backing onto the passage. Lower Dibbe Cottage occupies the former service end kitchen and a small dairy at the left end, with a kitchen axial stack backing onto the dairy and a large newel stair at the front end. A two-storey outshot projects in front of the dairy. A slit window of unknown function is located immediately to the right of the front passage doorway. All cottages are two storeys high.

The main front has an irregular four-window arrangement of 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. The passage front doorway, slightly left of centre, now has a 20th-century glazed door under what may be a 19th-century gabled hood. The roof is gable-ended to the right and hipped to the left. The two-storey outshot in front of the left end is now flat-roofed, although a late 19th-century photograph shows it with a thatched gabled roof. Dibbe Cottage and Lower Dibbe Cottage have rear doorways. The rear passage doorway (to Dibbe House) has a mid 17th-century ovolo-moulded oak frame.

The interior of Lower Dibbe Cottage, which was the only part inspected, is entirely of mid 17th-century origin. The former kitchen crossbeam is stop-chamfered with straight-cut stops, and the granite fireplace has an ovolo-moulded oak lintel. The roof features A-frame trusses with mortice-and-tenoned collars. Some common rafters appear smoke-blackened, potentially reused from a late medieval roof, suggesting a possible earlier house on the site. The rest of the house is likely as well-preserved. A previous listing mentioned panelling, and the Devon SMR reports an oak screen, an oak stair with acorn-shaped knobs and an elaborately moulded cupboard.