South Radworthy Cottage

A pair of cottages, dating to the late 17th century with an addition from the mid to late 19th century, and minor alterations in the late 20th century. The original 17th-century part is constructed from coursed stone rubble, rendered to the front, while the 19th-century addition is of uncoursed sandstone rubble with red-brick dressings around the openings. The 17th-century cottage has a gable-ended corrugated-asbestos roof (likely formerly thatched), and the 19th-century addition has a gable-ended Welsh-slate roof covered with bitumen. A stone stack with weatherings and a string course is original to the 17th century, while brick stacks are from the 19th century.

The original plan of the 17th-century cottage was a two-room layout facing south, with the main room on the right with an integral end stack and a staircase projecting to the rear. To the left is a smaller room, likely originally unheated. A corner stack is located at the rear of the original left-hand room, probably added in the 18th or 19th century. The mid to late 19th-century addition consists of a single-room kitchen addition to the original cottage, with a new front door, and a separate cottage to the right, possessing a brick end stack.

The 17th-century cottage has a two-window front, featuring late 19th- and 20th-century wooden casements. A shallow, battered buttress is on the right side. The 19th-century addition has two first-floor wooden casements, with glazed gables above, and a 19th-century cross window on the ground floor with a brick segmental arch. There are two 19th-century doorways to the left – one to each cottage – with brick segmental-arched heads, boarded doors (the left-hand door has a glazed panel), and pegged beaded frames. A one-storey lean-to addition is set back on the right, with a segmental-headed doorway, and a one-storey lean-to addition is at the left-hand gable end.

Inside the 17th-century cottage, the main ground-floor room has roughly-chamfered spine beams and a large open fireplace with a 19th-century mantel shelf. An old winder staircase is in the rear projection. The left-hand ground-floor room also has roughly-chamfered spine beams and a corner fireplace to the rear with a 20th-century surround. A former external bread oven projection is visible in the 19th-century kitchen. The first floor of the left-hand cottage and the interior of the right-hand cottage were not inspected. The site of an old chapel is approximately 50 metres to the northwest of the cottages.