Sycamore Cottage

Sycamore Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century, originally timber-framed and later encased in stone around 1690, with early 19th-century and mid-20th-century alterations. It features large coursed rubble and a stone slate roof. The house has an end-lobby entry plan and consists of two main cells, with an additional cell added to the southeast around 1690. It stands two storeys high and has quoins.

The front has three first-floor windows, and a double course of large stone footings indicates the extent of the original house, with smaller stones above and in the added cell to the right. The doorway, located to the left of three bays of windows, has a monolithic lintel. The ground-floor windows have deep monolithic lintels, while those above are set beneath the former eaves. The exposed wall-plate adds to the character. To the left of the doorway, there is an outshut that is coursed in and has a lean-to roof against the left-hand return wall. The gable brick stacks date from around 1690. The rear of the house has a similar arrangement of windows as the front, with a doorway featuring a monolithic lintel in the outshut to the right.

Inside, the doorway leads to a brick basket-arched fireplace from around 1690, with a brick division wall that has a girding beam above, square-cut joists, and a stop-chamfered spine beam. The posts are set on padstones, with one partly sunk into the front wall. The second cell retains a 16th-century beamed ceiling with large laid-on joists, which is a rare and unusual feature.