Whiddons Coffee Shop

Whiddons Coffee Shop is a coffee shop that was once two separate properties, dating from the mid 17th century, with some parts rebuilt in the early or mid 19th century. It is constructed of plastered granite stone rubble, featuring granite stacks topped with brick and a thatched roof. The building has a four-room plan and is positioned end-on to the High Street to the northeast. The front room projects forward from the adjacent properties, and it has a 19th-century lateral stack on the left side. Behind this room is a lobby that contains a 19th-century staircase. The third room has an axial stack that backs onto the lobby, while the larger rear room has an end stack that also backs onto the adjoining lobby. The historical development of the building before the 19th century is unclear, but it appears that the front two or three rooms once formed a separate property from the rear one or two-room plan cottage. The rear two rooms are from the mid 17th century, while the front two rooms are from the mid 19th century, having replaced the service end room of a 16th-century three-room-and-through-passage plan house. The passage and former hall are now part of the adjoining Church Stile Cottage. The building is two storeys high throughout.

On the exterior, the front end features a ground floor 20th-century shop window and a first-floor 19th-century 16-pane sash window, with a hipped roof above. The doorway is located on the right side, consisting of a 19th-century panelled door with a narrow overlight and a slate monopitch hood. The left side of the building has various 19th-century casements, and the former cottage doorway to the rear room contains an old plank door with studded cover strips.

Inside, the oldest features are found in the rear two rooms, which have 17th-century soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeams. The back room has an exposed contemporary fireplace made of granite, with a soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel. Other fireplaces in the building are blocked by 19th and 20th-century grates. The roof is inaccessible, but the exposed feet of the principals indicate A-frame trusses throughout, with those over the rear two rooms likely dating from the 17th century.