Compass Cottage Honeysuckle Little Thatch

Compass Cottage, Honeysuckle, and Little Thatch are three cottages that likely originated as a single farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century or 17th century, with later additions at the rear. The cottages have roughcast solid walls, with the left-hand gable wall made of exposed cob, and the adjacent front wall of Compass Cottage probably constructed from the same material. The cottages feature a thatched roof, hipped at the left-hand end.

On the rear wall to the left, behind Compass Cottage, there is a large granite chimney stack, while in the center of the rear wall, behind Honeysuckle, is a large, old projecting stack that is slightly tapered. The right-hand gable of Little Thatch has a smaller rendered stack. The original layout of the building is uncertain, but it is long enough to have accommodated the traditional three rooms and a through-passage, with Honeysuckle likely serving as the hall of the house.

The cottages are two storeys tall and have a four-window front, featuring 20th-century windows except for Compass Cottage, which has a two-light 19th-century wood casement in each storey, with two panes per light. All three cottages have 20th-century doors with thatched hoods. There are two 20th-century buttresses supporting the front wall of Little Thatch.

Inside Honeysuckle, there is an ovolo-moulded upper floor beam laid parallel to the ridge. The rear wall of the ground storey room contains a large fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel that has a step-stop at the left end, while the chamfer continues past the jamb on the right; the jambs are made of plain stonework. Compass Cottage also appears to have a large fireplace in the rear of the ground storey room, featuring a moulded wood lintel and a chamfered upper floor beam parallel to the ridge. The roof timbers are exposed in the upstairs room. Little Thatch is reported to have no visible early features, but it is likely that such features are concealed beneath plaster.