Complex sentence: Until the mid-twentieth century, Thorpe Acre comprised about twenty houses or cottages, several of which survive and there is a nineteenth-century church and an old hostelry, The Plough Inn.
Split into simpler sentences: Until the mid-twentieth century, it was a hamlet of about twenty houses or cottages, several of which survive. There is also a nineteenth-century church and an old hostelry, The Plough Inn.