Candle Cottage And Garden Walls And Railings To East

A house, possibly built in the late 15th century as a chantry priest's house, with alterations dating to the early 17th century. The house is constructed of Ham Hill stone rubble, with a slate roof featuring a 15th-century lateral stack to the left of the centre and gabled ends. The original plan was a three-unit through-passage arrangement, comprising a central hall, a parlour to the right, and a service area to the left.

The two-storey exterior showcases a five-window front, with a mix of 20th-century windows and doors at the front and rear. First-floor windows are mainly at eaves level, supported by wooden lintels. A 15th-century Ham Hill stone buttress is located to the left of the lateral stack, alongside an 18th-century stone mullioned window.

Inside, the room to the right (north) retains a 15th-century quartered ceiling. A substantial lateral beam exhibits moulding similar to the wall beams at the front and rear, with the subsidiary beam terminating in a point at the crossing. The room to the left of the former passage features a heavy chamfered cross-beam supported by a massive limestone lintel over a late 16th/early 17th-century open fireplace. The Tudor arch above the fireplace has shallow ovolo mouldings with decorative stops above floor level. The room furthest to the left has an axial beam and remnants of a timber-framed partition. On the first floor, to the right, are the feet of three jointed cruck timbers, with moulded arch braces, moulded principal rafters, and slightly chamfered trenched purlins. The wall plate fascia is carved with an undulating line incorporating quatrefoils in circles, framed by cusped mouchettes. The roof over the central rooms has collar-truss construction with trenched purlins. Most first-floor doors are early 18th-century, featuring four raised and fielded panels and H and L hinges.

The garden, approximately 30 metres square to the west of the house, is bounded by spearhead railings with double gates along East Street. The house's design resembles other late medieval chantry priests' houses found in Somerset.