Scrivener's Cottage

Scrivener’s Cottage is a farmhouse and adjoining barn dating to 1797, as indicated by a datestone inscribed "SCRIVENER 1797." The construction is primarily brick, with a pantile roof. The building’s plan consists of a two-room-deep house at the right end, with an entrance hall on the left, and a three-bay barn extending to the left.

The building is two storeys high, extending across five bays. The main entrance features a plain door and overlight, set beneath a painted segmental brick arch with a painted datestone above. A sixteen-pane flush sash window is located to the right, featuring a segmental brick arch and stucco sill. An unequal nine-pane sash window is on the first floor, with a blind window panel above the entrance, both with segmental brick arches and stucco sills. To the left, the facade has three vertical slit vents on each floor, with the ground-floor vents now blocked. The roof has stepped eaves, and the gables are brick-coped and tumbled. An end stack is situated to the right. The left return exhibits three blocked slit vents on the ground floor and a central first-floor hatch with a segmental brick arch and cill.

At the rear, a large elliptical brick-keyed waggon arch accommodates original board doors and wrought-iron strap hinges. The house end has a four-pane and a twelve-pane sliding sash window. It is an unusual example of a combined farmhouse and barn, notable for its small size and unaltered condition.