Netherwood Cottage And Farmhouse

Netherwood Cottage and Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now divided into a farmhouse and a cottage, dating from perhaps the early 17th century. The building was altered and partly rebuilt or remodelled in the 18th century. The majority of the structure is built of large sandstone blocks laid to courses, with quoins, but the front of the farmhouse section (now the main range) is of watershot coursed squared masonry. It has a stone slate roof. The building has an elongated T-shaped plan. The cottage, situated at the right-hand end, projects forwards and backwards and is likely the service wing of the original house, subsequently rebuilt and now consisting of three bays.

The building is two stories high. Notable features include windows with recessed ovolo-and-fillet moulded mullions. The west gable wall has four-light windows on each floor; the lower window is blocked and now covered by a car-port roof, the upper window is missing one mullion and has two lights blocked. The rear of the building has five lights at ground floor (lacking the first and fourth mullions) and four lights above. The front of the cottage has an inserted door and window at ground floor and a two-light window above, lacking its mullion. The rear wall of the farmhouse appears to continue masonry into the cottage. Chimneys are located at both gables and on the ridge.

Inside, the party wall between the farmhouse and cottage contains the remains of two chamfered doorways. The cottage has a partly exposed roof truss with a punched carpenter’s mark "11' " on the principal rafter.