Cockshutts Farm Cottage Cockshutts Farmhouse

Cockshutts Farmhouse and Cockshutts Farm Cottage are a pair of dwellings that originated as a farmhouse, likely built in the 16th century and expanded in the 17th century. The building features slobbered thin sandstone rubble, except for the wing, which is faced in squared sandstone. It has a stone slate roof with three chimneys: one on the ridge at the junction of the bays, one at the right gable, and another at the rear corner of the wing.

The structure is T-shaped with a two-bay through-passage plan hall-range and a projecting stair-turret porch at the second bay, along with a crosswing at the left end. It stands two storeys high. The two-storey porch has a carried-down roof, a chamfered doorway to the left, and a round-headed light to the right. The hall part features a five-light window with recessed ovolo and fillet moulded mullions, along with a hoodmould. There is an inserted door close to the wing on the left, a similar two-light window above, and a 12-pane sash window.

The gable wall of the wing has a five-light window at ground floor and a four-light window above, both with cavetto-moulded mullions and hoodmoulds. The right return wall includes two small deeply-chamfered round-headed lights on each floor, one of which is blocked. The rear of this section has three similar windows at first floor, two small windows at ground floor, and a wide shouldered opening leading to a recessed doorway to the through-passage. The rear of the hall part has quoins at the junction, a recessed two-light window at first floor (lacking the mullion), and a small square light above the back door next to the wing. The rear gable of the wing has two two-light windows at ground floor and another above.

Inside, the hall part features crudely-chamfered beams and a smokehood in the chamber above. There are chamfered stone doorways to both rooms in the crosswing, designed like external doorways, with one of them inside out. The parlour in the front bay of the wing has two beams supported by exceptionally large moulded corbels in the outer wall, while the kitchen in the rear bay includes a small inglenook fireplace. The wing has a collar truss roof.