Plumpton Cottage and Barn Adjoining East Side of Plumpton House Plumpton House

This is a range of buildings comprising a house, cottage, and barn situated to the east side of Plumpton House, located on Mitchell Lane, Simpson Green. The house, of early 17th-century origin, is constructed from large, irregularly coursed gritstone blocks. It features four- and five-light chamfered mullion windows on the ground floor and later 18th-century three-light square mullion windows on the first floor. A chamfered jamb doorway, featuring a heavy lintel dated 1601, has a modern door, and above it is a small, single-block lancet window. The cottage, projecting at the west end, is circa 1800 and built of sandstone “brick.” It exhibits three-light square mullion windows and a blocked former doorway on the first floor, which appears to be an adaptation of a previous outhouse. The substantial barn at the east end is constructed with dry-walled sandstone “bricks” and flush quoins, and incorporates an aisle on the north side. There is a two-storey outshot to the rear of the house and a single-storey outshot to the rear of the cottage, both under stone slate roofs with corniced chimneys.