Primrose Cottage

Primrose Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Scorton, Nether Wyresdale. The building is constructed of rendered rubble and features a steep corrugated iron roof. It has one storey with an attic. On either side of the front door, there are modern windows with glazing bars. To the left of the door, there is a fire window with plain reveals, consisting of three lights and timber mullions. The attic is illuminated by two dormers, and the door itself has plain reveals. The cottage has gable chimneys, with the left-hand chimney replacing a firehood and set inside the gable wall.

The left-hand gable wall features windows on both floors with rebated and chamfered surrounds, although the central mullion has been removed. Inside, a cruck truss is visible on the ground floor, and between the cruck blades, there is a timber-framed wall that separates the main house part from two rooms at the north-west end. The adjacent chamfered doorways to these rooms are still present, although one of the flat doorheads has been removed. In the main house part, a heck post extends from floor to ceiling, and a firehood bressumer has been cut off below ceiling level. Additionally, a second vertical timber is embedded in the front wall and is mortised for a bressumer. A fragment of dressed sandstone with a rope moulded edge, possibly part of a medieval grave cover, is built into the left-hand side wall of the current fireplace.