Little Manor Slack Top Cottage

A house dated 1599, with a rear wing and internal alterations dated 1681. It is now divided into two separate dwellings. The house is built of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. Its original layout comprised a three-room through-passage. It is two storeys high. All windows have lower sills and retain chamfered surrounds, with some mullions remaining. The front facade originally featured a five-light window, now replaced; a probable six-light window with a king mullion and a two-light fire-window, with a light opened between to the housebody. Two windows on the first floor are from the mid-20th century. A basket-arched doorway has a stop-chamfered surround. A single-storey gabled extension, constructed around 1983, is attached at right angles to the service end, partially obscuring an internally preserved four-light, double-chamfered mullioned window. The first floor has a five-light and a former two-light chamfered mullioned window. A lateral stack is situated at the junction of the original building and the added wing, with rainwater spouts on either side. The rear elevation includes a single-storey outshut or aisle with two windows, also with double-chamfered surrounds. A two-storey rear wing is attached to the aisle, containing a six-light double-chamfered mullioned window with a king mullion, and a four-light window above. These windows lack hoodmoulds. Three stacks on the ridge have been replaced. Inside the housebody, there are finely reeded spine beams with stop chamfer and scarf joints, along with evidence of a former bressumer. A thin stone wall, dividing the room, has an ogee lintel inscribed "W S," which juts out to support a double-thickness wall at the first floor. The service end retains four double-chamfered mullioned windows. The rear room of the added wing has a Tudor arched lintel carried on corbelled jambs with a chamfered surround. Above the housebody is a large tie-beam with chamfer; the roof truss is not visible. The service end incorporates a re-used arch-braced collar beam truss now resting on a tie-beam supported by corbels.