Mallard Cottage And Damson Cottage

Mallard Cottage and Damson Cottage are a pair of attached early 17th-century cottages, which were likely recased in brick during the later 18th century. They are located in Higher Whitley, near Dark Lane. The cottages have brown brick facades and grey slate roofs.

The cottages are two storeys high. The left cottage has two casement windows with three six-pane lights on the front, a replaced small-pane, part-glazed door, and cambered arches over the windows. The upper storey has two windows with three four-pane lights, and one window with a single three-pane light. The right cottage has one casement window with three eight-pane lights on the front, and one window with three six-pane lights on each storey in its gable end. A shortened projecting chimney is on the left gable; a ridge chimney with four flues sits over the junction of the two cottages. There are two gabled dormers at the rear of the left cottage, and a two-storey, one-room rear wing has been added to the right cottage and is sympathetic in style. Diapering is visible on the right cottage.

The interior of the left cottage features a lobby entrance, an inglenook fireplace with an ovolo-moulded oak bressumer, chamfered oak beams, some small framing in the rear wall, and oak purlins. The interior of the right cottage was not inspected, but oak beams are visible.