Tudor Cottage

Tudor Cottage is a house dating to around 1500, with alterations from the late 16th and 17th centuries, and a further addition from the late 17th century. It is part of a row of eight houses. The exterior walls are rendered rubble, and the roof is thatched, gabled at either end where it joins the adjacent properties. A prominent axial granite ashlar stack features a moulded dripcourse and a tapering cap.

The original plan was a three-room layout with a through passage, the lower end of the house being on the right. The inner room was later incorporated into the adjacent house to the left. Originally, the hall and lower end were open to the roof, with a central hearth in the hall. A hall stack was inserted backing onto the passage in the late 16th century, but the hall likely remained open to the roof until the early to mid-17th century. During the 17th century, a small heated rear wing was added, likely for use as a kitchen.

The front of the house has two storeys and a regular three-window facade. The upper floor has 2-light casements with small panes. The ground floor has a C20 casement to the left and a C19 16-paned, horned sash window to the right. A C19 plank door is situated in the centre, protected by a slate doorhood.

Inside, the rear of the passage features an original wooden doorframe with bowed jambs and a cambered lintel. The hall has a chamfered fireplace with a granite frame and a high lintel. A chamfered ceiling beam with straight-cut stops is present, along with chamfered joists. Behind the fireplace is a section of chamfered plank and muntin screen dividing the hall from the passage. The hall stack is built from granite ashlar. The rear wing has a fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel.

The original roof structure remains, and is smoke-blackened. It consists of two likely cruck trusses; one over the hall has only its rear blade, while the front blade has been cut off by the inserted stack. The second is located at the lower end of the passage and is an open truss with a morticed, cranked collar. It features a threaded ridge with a conventional morticed apex and trenched or threaded purlins. An end truss in the lower gable end has a strengthening block below the apex. A section of the roof over the passage at the front has been plastered and blackened. A later partition separates off part of the hall at the upper end.