Cherry Tree Cottage

Cherry Tree Cottage is the right-hand half of a 16th-century house, along with the adjoining Tudor Cottage. It has walls constructed of local limestone rubble, a gabled roof covered in Welsh slate, gabled dormers, and modern brick stacks. The building is two storeys with an attic.

The main street elevation, viewed from the south-west, presents a lean-to addition with a modern panelled door leading to Cherry Tree Cottage. The main house features a series of windows: firstly and secondly, two-light windows at both ground and first floor levels; small attic windows are visible in each gable. The windows in the third bay are set to the east, beyond a roof stack, next to a blocked doorway and a potentially shared front wall. An arched stone doorway with straight-edged jamb is also present. The fourth bay is a shallow rectangular bay window, similar in style to that found at the Swan Inn, Llantwit Major, with a modern three-light window with a scored lintel on both ground and first floors. This bay window also features a small round-headed single-light window in each return, and a small single-light window in the attic dormer. The fifth bay has a two-light ground floor window and a smaller three-light first floor window, both with scratch voussoirs to their heads. All larger windows are late 20th-century casements set in altered openings, beneath timber lintels. The steeply pitched roof has three rebuilt stacks; one on the left gable, one by the cross-passage, and a third central to Cherry Tree Cottage. The rear elevation was not visible during the most recent inspection.

The interior, which was not inspected, appears to have remained unchanged since the property was originally listed in 1982. The building represents the Hall and Parlour of the original 16th-century house. Original features include arched and chamfered stone doorways with run-out stops, for example, leading from the passageway to rooms at the east end, and two doorways at the top of the staircase. A ground floor room immediately to the east of the passage features an arch over a bay window, with chamfered beams with pyramid stops, with more ornately carved stops, including crescent moons, on the centre beam. There is a stopped and chamfered fireplace surround. A mural stair leads to paired first-floor doorways. These details are illustrated in plans and drawings within the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (RCAHMW) records.