Blacksmith's Cottages

Blacksmith's Cottages is a pair of two-story buildings constructed with limewashed rubble and topped with a long straw thatched roof featuring "eyebrows" above the first-floor windows. The front elevation displays seven 19th-century timber casement windows with two lights each on the first floor, and six ground floor windows of various styles. There are four 20th-century brick chimneys, three of which are axial, while the westernmost chimney is gabled. The front also has seven buttresses, three of which are made of rubble at the eastern end, and the rest are modern concrete. The rear elevation includes three 19th-century lean-to scullery outshuts with slated roofs and timber casements. Notably, the eastern gable has a blocked early 17th-century single light window with ferramenta at first floor level, featuring sunk chamfered jambs and a hollow chamfered head beneath a fragmentary hoodmould.

The easternmost cottage, known as No 5, dates back to the early 17th century and has a two-cell, lobby entry plan with significant back-to-back fireplaces that retain timber lintels. A cross-corner stone stair remains on the northern side of the fireplace. The eastern hall cell was originally illuminated by a three-light window on the south elevation, which is supported by a relieving arch. The ceiling in the hall cell is held up by lateral quarter-round moulded beams, with thirteen intricately reed-moulded joists in each bay. The western cell features a joist beam ceiling and a modern straight flight staircase. The central cottage, No 4, seems to have started as a single-story workshop, likely contemporary with the eastern cottage, which was raised to full two-story height probably in the late 18th or early 19th century. The western cottage, dating from around 1700, consists of two cells with a central axial and gable stack at the western end, designed in a hearth passage form with a hall and outer room. The passage is located to the west of the axial stack, and a timber spiral staircase is situated on the northern side of the axial stack.