Taverners

Taverners is a house dating from the late 17th century, with an addition from the 18th or 19th century. It is built of colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, topped with a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end. The house features one axial stack and one stack at the right end.

The layout consists of a two-room plan, with a direct entrance into the principal room on the left, which is heated by the axial stack (originally at the gable end), and a smaller heated service room on the right. There is a one-room extension at the higher left end, likely from the 18th or 19th century, and a small lean-to at the lower end.

The house is two storeys high, with an irregular two-window front gable end facing the road. The thatched eaves have an eyebrow over the first-floor window. To the right, there is a half-glazed 20th-century front door, flanked by a three-light casement window with three panes per light on either side. A change in the plane of the front wall indicates that the left-hand end may be an addition; this end has no windows on the front elevation and features a two-leaf 20th-century glazed door. A thatched porch canopy covers the rear door.

Inside, the middle room has a chamfered cross beam with unusual rough stops, and there are 20th-century grates in the fireplaces. Taverners is an attractive cob and thatch house, typical of the region, and is visible from the road.