17, North Street

This is a detached cottage, possibly dating to the late 16th century. It is constructed of ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a thatched roof. The south gable has a stepped coping and a gabletted finial, while the north gable is plain. A brick chimney stack is located on the north side. The cottage is two storeys high and has two bays. An 18th-century two-light timber casement window with iron opening lights is positioned above the ground floor. Below, a four-light mullioned window with an ovolo-mould in a wave-mould recess is in the first bay, and a hollow-chamfered three-light mullioned window in a chamfered recess is located in the second bay; both ground floor windows have labels. A thatched and timber open porch is situated at the gable entry on the north side. There are 20th-century casement windows in both gables. There are visible signs of three blocked windows on the west elevation.

The interior, as reported, features deep chamfer ceiling beams framed in the hall. There are lateral beams with step and runout stops in the inner room, a solid stone staircase which is likely not original, and a post-and-truss partition extending through both floors. There is also a blocked, chamfered, cambered-arched timber doorway, a large fireplace with a chamfered timber beam and stone jambs in the north wall, containing a salt hole, and trenched purlins into truss principals with wattle and daub infill panels.