Easdon Cottage

Easdon Cottage is a small house dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with alterations made in the mid-18th century and significant modernisation in the 20th century. The building features granite rubble walls, which are rendered at the front, and has rendered stone gable-end chimneys with a drip-course. The roof is slate and gabled at both ends.

The layout consists of a four-room plan with a central hallway. There are two main rooms at the front, with the larger room on the right. A central passage leads to a stairwell that has a 20th-century staircase against the rear wall. Behind the two main rooms are two smaller service rooms. The house has two storeys and a regular three-window front range, featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars, including two and three-light windows. To the left of the centre, there is a doorway with a 19th or 20th-century plank door that has two glazed lights.

On the right gable end, there is a doorway leading into a rear service room, which is enclosed in a 20th-century lean-to stone porch. Above this doorway is a two-light casement window with a timber lintel, and there is a small blocked window near the top of the gable. A straight joint in the stonework indicates where the roof has been raised and the pitch altered. At the rear of the house, there is a single-storey 20th-century extension that occupies the space between the house and the adjoining barn.

Inside, the cottage features several six-fielded panel doors with H-L hinges, a two-fielded panel cupboard door, and shutters on the window in the ground floor left room. The 18th-century pegged roof has curved collars that are lapped onto straight principals, with purlins trenched into the backs of the trusses.