29 Westgate

29 Westgate is a cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, featuring an earlier core and a mid to late 20th-century rear extension. The building is constructed of coursed stone with a pantile roof and a red brick chimney stack.

The cottage is set back from Westgate on its north side and has an L-shaped plan with a central entrance. The main (south) elevation consists of two bays and two storeys beneath a pitched roof, topped with a ridge chimney stack. The central entrance is fitted with a four-panel door, which has glazed upper panels, and is flanked by three-light windows with stone lintels on either side. The first floor features identical windows with timber lintels, and all windows have projecting sills. The rear (north) elevation includes a single inserted ground floor window and a projecting two-storey rear range from the mid-20th century, with modern uPVC window frames.

Inside, the historic ground floor plan is preserved, featuring a central staircase with full-depth rooms on either side. The eastern room contains a large inglenook fireplace on the west wall, which has a small inserted fireplace. This room retains a substantial bressumer beam that would have originally supported a chimney hood, a heck partition (a screen to the fireplace), and a stop-chamfered heck post. A recess to the right of the heck suggests a passage that may have originally extended through the party wall. The eastern room also has a pair of substantial chamfered and waney spine beams running from west to east, supporting stop-chamfered common rafters, with the most easterly spine beam being scarf-jointed at its south end. The western room has a similar arrangement of spine beams. The lower part of the roof structure is visible within the coved ceilings of the first floor and consists of at least two triangular trusses that differ in character from the ground floor carpentry, indicating they are of a later date.