Laxey Cottage

Laxey Cottage is a house located on High Street in Shincliffe, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with a possible 16th-century rear wing. It also features a former byre or barn from the late 18th to early 19th century, and alterations made around 1930. The building is constructed of painted roughcast rubble, topped with large Welsh roof slates and has rebuilt brick chimney stacks.

The layout is T-shaped, with the hearth-passage house on the right and the former byre/barn, now a domestic wing, on the left. The original house has two storeys and consists of two bays, while the left wing has three bays. A late 18th-century six-panel door with a patterned fanlight is set in an open-pedimented doorcase, leading into the hearth passage at the junction.

The house features a wide two-storey early 19th-century canted bay window with 12-pane sashes on the left, and 16-pane sashes with projecting stone sills on the right. The roof is steeply pitched with swept eaves and transverse end stacks. The wing has various openings with side-hung metal casements from around 1930 and a low-pitched roof with a stack at the left end.

The rear wing is two storeys high with two bays and walls that are approximately 1.0 to 1.25 meters thick. It has scattered 12-pane sashes, a large stepped external chimney on the rear gable end, and a steeply pitched roof with swept eaves. The interior was altered around 1930. The main house roof features two pairs of heavy adzed upper crucks that cross at the ridge and support halved cambered collars. The rear wing has massive adzed closely spaced ceiling beams on the ground floor and two pairs of late 18th to early 19th-century thin curved upper crucks that are halved at the ridge, with a planked partition set behind the front pair.

There are also one- and two-storey flat-roofed additions flanking the rear wing from around 1930, which are not of special interest.