Orchard Cottage, Orchard Terrace

Orchard Cottage, located on Orchard Terrace, is a house and shop that was formerly a bakery. It dates back to the 17th century, with possible earlier elements, and underwent refurbishment in the 19th century. The building is constructed of plastered granite stone rubble, featuring granite stacks, one of which has a granite ashlar chimney shaft, and is topped with a slate roof that was originally thatched.

The house has a three-room plan and is oriented end onto the street, facing southeast and built down a slope. The left end room, which is uphill, has a large projecting kitchen stack. Below this is an entrance hall with a staircase. There is a disused axial stack that served the central room, while the end room is wider than the others and divided by an axial wall. A small shop was added at a right angle along Southcombe Street, behind the kitchen/bakery. It appears that Orchard Cottage and the adjoining No 5 Southcombe Street were originally part of the same property, with Orchard Cottage serving as a 17th-century service crosswing. The building is two storeys high.

The exterior features an irregular front with four windows, which are late 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The front doorway is located to the left of centre and contains a 19th-century six-pane door behind a 20th-century gabled porch with a shingle roof. The roof is gable-ended, and the Southcombe Street side showcases the large plastered kitchen/bakery stack. The shop has a 20th-century door and window.

Inside, most of the features have been modernised in the 19th and 20th centuries, but the kitchen/bakery stack remains as a 17th-century element. The large ground floor fireplace is made of granite, with an irregular soffit-chamfered oak lintel and a massive oven at the back. The chamber above has a granite ashlar fireplace with a soffit-chamfered lintel featuring scroll stops, which is quite unusual for a timber lintel finish. The inspected section of the roof dates to the 17th century and includes large scantling A-frame trusses with curving feet, pegged lap-jointed collars, and dovetail halvings.