Brendon Cottage

Brendon Cottage is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century. It was divided into two cottages in the 19th century but has since been restored and is now a single dwelling. The building features slobbered rubble construction with some sections rebuilt in cob on the rear elevation. It has a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the left, a tall 19th-century brick stack on the right gable end, and a rebuilt brick stack on a stone base to the left of the cross passage, which includes a slate-roofed bread oven projection on the facade.

The layout suggests it may have originally been an open hall house, now ceiled to a three-cell arrangement with a cross passage. The cottage is one and a half storeys high, with all 20th-century wooden casements. There are three and two-light casements that rise from the eaves flanking the stack, and the ground floor openings are under wooden lintels, with three to the left of the entrance and one to the right. A plank door with remnants of a peaked head is located to the right of the porch, which projects across the bread oven.

On the right return, there is a single-storey 20th-century addition with an inserted 20th-century window, as well as a small lean-to addition at the rear. Inside, there is a chamfered plank and muntin screen in the through passage, with the lower end featuring a chamfered lintel and a winder stair against the rear wall. The hall is accessed through a semi-circular headed doorway and has moulded axial beams, although there is no evidence that it originally had a compartment ceiling. The bread oven was added when the space became a second kitchen. Lateral stairs are set against the rear wall of the inner room, with chamfered beams that have step and run-out stops, truncated by inserted windows in the gable end walls and by the stair. The upper floor has changes in level and a collar beam roof.