Ball Green And Ball Green Cottage

A house, now divided into a house and cottage, with an attached outbuilding, was originally built around 1600. A rear section is dated 1634, but the building was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared millstone grit with a stone slate roof. The house has two storeys and originally three bays, although the front half of the left bay has been demolished. The front of Ball Green Cottage has a rebuilt gable wall that is set back. The central and right bays are gabled. A chamfered plinth and quoins are visible on the right side. A chamfered, quoined doorway is located to the left of the central bay, with a 20th-century door within a pent roofed porch. A board door is set within a plain stone surround to the left of the right bay. Double-chamfered mullion windows feature five lights in the central bay, a two-light window, and a five-light window above. The five-light window has round-headed lights, sunk spandrels, and a "W" carved into the head of the central light. The right bay has a four-light window with a three-light window above. The gables are coped and have shaped kneelers. Two stacks with tabling are positioned on the left pitch of the central bay, and two external stacks are at the right end, with the front one truncated. The rear has three gabled bays, with the outer bays projecting. The left bay has a chamfered plinth, a five-light window with a hoodmould, a four-light window above, kneelers, and coped gables. The central bay has 19th-century openings with raised, plain stone surrounds. A doorway on the right has an overlight and a tall keystone bearing an incised "H" and crosses. Above the keystone are the remains of an earlier datestone with a dated boss. The right bay has quoins, a tie-stone surround to the doorway on the left, and a small rectangular opening with a ledge in the gable. On the left return of this bay, there are traces of a 17th-century first-floor window. The right return has a stack with two gutter spouts offset from the gable. To the right of the stack is a blocked, first-floor light with a chamfered surround. The interior of the left (east) bay, now the outbuilding, has a flat-arched fireplace with a moulded surround and deep lintel. There are heavy-scantling beams, cyma-moulded spine-beams, and stop-chamfered joists. A king-post truss features a cusped brace to a ridge-plate and struts; wattle and daub is visible in the gable, indicating a division wall. Visible are wall plates, purlins, and rafters. According to Kendall, the "W" on the front window refers to a member of the Wilde family, who occupied the building from 1703 to 1763, and the symbols over the rear door are possibly a merchant's mark.