The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with window alterations from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble, featuring a replaced pantiled roof and a brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and three windows. It has a low plinth and alternating quoins on the left side. There is a replaced door located under a hoodmould on the right. The carved stone door surround includes sunk rectangular strips and a moulded inner left edge with a run-out stop; however, the right jamb and part of the hoodmould are missing. To the left of the door, there are two 16-pane sash windows in moulded surrounds with projecting sills. Above the door, there is a narrow 8-pane sash, and two additional 16-pane sashes to the left, all in identical surrounds. The steeply-pitched roof has slightly-swept eaves, a coped left gable, and a shaped kneeler. The left end stack has been rebuilt. Inside, the ground-floor room features a moulded, square stone fireplace that is partly obscured by an early 20th-century wood surround, and there is a small round-arched niche to the left of the fireplace, which may have been a former bread oven.