The Cottage

The Cottage is a house located on Main Street in Newton Solney. It dates from the 18th century and was remodeled in the cottage ornee style around 1840. The building features painted brick and render with hipped and gabled roofs covered in Welsh slate. There are paired brick ridge stacks on the main part of the house and an additional stack just off the ridge on the left range.

The house has two storeys and the west elevation consists of three bays on the right and three bays on the left. The right side has a central gothick doorway with a half-glazed door that includes Y-tracery and diamond pattern lights. This doorway is flanked by canted oriels with diamond leaded lights. Above, on the first floor, there is a similar central gothick doorway set in a dormer with a flat-topped parapet that has ramped sides. This is flanked by 2-light windows featuring Y-tracery and diamond leaded lights, also set in half dormers.

There is a three-bay iron verandah and balcony supported by four slender columns. The centre bay has a latticework frieze, while the outer bays have openwork segment arches. The balcony above features a decorative balustrade that ramps up in the centre over a gothic arch. The three bays set back to the left have three segment-headed windows on the ground floor and three pointed windows with Y-tracery on the first floor.

On the south elevation, there are two gothick windows on the ground floor with bronze diamond lights, and one pointed window with Y-tracery above, which is set in a dormer with a ramped parapet. The porch on the east side has decorative bargeboards, a pointed arched entrance, and side windows. Inside, there is an open string staircase with stick balusters and reeded door architraves.