Butler Cottage And Butler Farmhouse

Butler Cottage and Butler Farmhouse, also known as No 35 and 37 Church Hill, is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It dates from the mid-17th century and is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with dressed quoins and a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high with a single-storey outshut at the rear and follows a two-cell, gable-entry plan.

On the first floor, there are three windows, all of which are double-chamfered mullioned windows. The ground floor windows have hood-moulds, with the first cell (Butler Cottage) featuring a former 5-light window that has been altered to 2 lights and includes an inserted doorway. Above this is a 3-light window. The second cell has a 6-light window that is missing a mullion, and a 4-light window above it. There is also an inserted doorway with French windows to the left of a 2-light fire-window (which also lacks a mullion) and a 4-light window above. The gable is coped with kneelers and has a stack on the right side.

At the rear, there is a low sweeping roof with a blocked 2-light window to the left of a doorway that has tie-stone jambs. There are two other blocked 2-light windows and two later inserted windows. The right-hand return wall features a wide doorway with tie-stone jambs that is blocked, which forms the original gable-entry. Above this is a taking-in-door with tie-stone jambs, partly blocked to a window, and to the left is another doorway with tie-stone jambs.

Inside, the cottage has a stop-chamfered spine beam and a moulded beam with a groove in the soffit for board-and-muntin panelling, of which a small section remains. There is a basket-arched fireplace with a stop-chamfered surround and a king-post truss with single-angle struts. The first-floor chamber has an 18th-century fireplace, likely added when Butler House was built, featuring an architrave and moulded shelf, along with a 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window that is now blocked by Butler House. The farmhouse has a continuation of the same chamfered spine beam found in the cottage, which has a scarf-joint at the north-east end, indicating evidence of a former bressumer.