Clematis Cottage

Clematis Cottage is a cottage, partially dating to the early 17th century and partially to 1693, with later alterations and extensions. It is constructed of painted coursed rubble sandstone with a grey slate roof. The building is T-shaped, consisting of a two-room cross-wing and a later one-room left wing. The cross-wing is early 17th century, altered in the late 17th century. A cyma band runs across the first floor. The front gable features a cyma band at the upper storey ceiling, with a five-light recessed mullioned window on the lower storey and two two-light recessed mullioned windows on the upper storey (replacing a single earlier window). There is one ridge chimney on each wing. The right side of the cross-wing has a five-light recessed mullioned window to the front lower storey room, a replaced framed and boarded door surmounted by a recessed datestone with a shouldered rounded top inscribed “IE:I:1693.” A late 20th-century glazed porch now fronts an inserted French window in the rear room. The rear gable has a three-light flush bevelled-mullion window to the lower storey and two inserted mullioned windows to the upper storey. The interior follows a baffle-entrance plan, altered in the mid-20th century. The front room contains an inglenook with a moulded front support of red sandstone inscribed “KI:1620” and a large cambered oak bressumer. A late 17th-century sandstone fireplace is present in the rear room, featuring a cyma overmantel, and a chamfered oak beam is in the front room. The staircase has been replaced.