Primrose Cottage

Primrose Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, consisting of two builds with alterations made in the late 19th century. It is constructed from roughly-squared stone with cut dressings and features a pantile roof with old brick stacks. The east elevation has two storeys and three irregular bays. The end bays have vertical-panelled doors, with a small four-pane casement window between them and a twelve-pane Yorkshire sash window on the far left. On the first floor, there is a six-pane Yorkshire sash window to the left, set in the opening of an earlier mullioned window, and two twelve-pane sashes, with the right one being renewed. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers, and there are stacks at the left end and ridge, with the left end stack rebuilt on a stone base. The left return features two chamfered attic windows, with the one on the right formerly having two lights but now containing a four-pane Yorkshire sash. The right return displays twelve-pane sashes, with the upper ones renewed, under timber lintels, and a four-pane Yorkshire sash in the attic, set in the blocking of a wider window. A brick outshut at the rear is not of special interest. Primrose Cottage was formerly one of the two Seaton Lodge Cottages, with the Lodge itself, described as Sir John Delaval's 'finest thatched house in the kingdom', located a short distance to the north before being demolished around 1965.