Harmans Cottage

Harmans Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-17th century, with extensions made in the 19th and late 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed stone rubble and is rendered at the rear. The roof is thatched with half-hipped ends, featuring gable-end and lateral stacks with brick shafts.

The layout consists of a two-room and through-passage plan. The kitchen is located on the left (south) and includes a large gable-end fireplace, while the unheated service room on the right (north) has a later corner stack. A third room on the right end and an outshut, now used as a kitchen, were added in the 19th century, along with a wing at the rear of the north end added in the late 20th century.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and features an asymmetrical two-window range on the east front, with three-light casements that have horizontal glazing bars and are located under eyebrow eaves. The central doorway has a plank door, and the ground floor openings are topped with timber lintels. The rear (west) side has two eyebrow dormers with casements, and a single-storey outshut with a double-Roman tile lean-to roof connects to the late 20th-century wing on the left.

Inside, the former kitchen on the left has a deeply chamfered cross-beam with hollow-step stops, a large gable-end fireplace with a slightly chamfered cambered timber bressumer on rebuilt brick jambs, and a cupboard in the rear wall with a plank door. The right-hand room, now the center room, features a roughly hewn axial beam and later joists. The attic chambers are ceiled, but the roof principals are exposed and set on the wall tops, with a four-bay roof that has straight principals and later collars.

Harmans Cottage is a notable example of a 17th-century two-room plan house, with later additions that do not compromise the integrity of the original structure.