Pitts Cottages

This is a house, originally built in 1583, and later divided into two dwellings. Minor alterations were made in the late 19th century and the 20th century. The house is constructed of blue lias stone, coursed and squared, with some parts rendered, and has a double-Roman tiled roof. It features three brick ridge stacks. The layout originally consisted of a three-unit through-passage plan, which was later partitioned.

The two-storey main frontage has two 20th-century casement windows on the first floor, one metal and two three-light 19th-century casements on the ground floor, all with reveals and cambered heads. A window opening on the left side has its casement missing. The rear elevation is of coursed and squared rubble.

Internally, important features remain, including framed ceilings to the left two ground floor rooms, separated by a stud and panel partition. Two fireplaces are present; the one in the right-hand room (the lower end of the house) has a reeded Regency chimney-piece with a 19th-century cast-iron grate and tiled inserts. The central room has a blocked fireplace, revealing a moulded mantle-shelf indicating a cruck roof construction (the roof structure being obscured by 20th-century ceilings).