Nash Hill Cottage

Nash Hill Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 16th century, with later extensions to the west and an outshot. It was re-fenestrated in the early 20th century. The cottage is constructed of random rubble local stone with a thatched roof, hipped to the left, and has a rebuilt brick stack to the right of the through passage. The original plan was likely a single-ended open hall house with a gable entrance facing south, extended to the west to include a through passage and a further room. Subsequent alterations have occurred. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has a 3:1 bay arrangement. The first floor has eyebrow dormers with two lights. The ground floor has a plank door in the end bay to the left, flanked by three-light casements with dressed voussoirs and a thatched porch. There is another plank door in the end bay to the right, also with dressed voussoirs. The interior is not visible but is believed to feature a fireplace with a moulded bressummer beam, the moulding continuing down stone jambs, a shaped head to a former external doorway, a bread oven, and a framed partition with large semi-circular-headed wooden doorframes to an adjoining room. The roof is a collar bead truss construction. It has been proposed that the original layout consisted of a single room open to the ceiling, heated by a fine chimneypiece with a jettied-out room opposite, accessed by a ladder due to the lack of space for a staircase.